Wren distributed in Eurasia and North Africa and North America. Believed to have originally been exclusively an American wren species, since all other types of family krapivnikovyh (and more than 60) live exclusively in the New World. Most likely, the territory of Asia, then Europe and Africa, he came across «Beringiysky Bridge» - existed at one time a wide strait between America and Asia on the spot of the Bering Strait.
In the mainland of North America, there are two spatially separated from each breeding population: «East», which includes the south-east of Canada (southern Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Manitoba, as well as on. Newfoundland) and the north-east United States (New England and the Great Lakes region). Most of the populations of birds in winter have migrated to the southern and south-eastern regions of the United States and north-eastern regions of Mexico. In the «western» population includes birds in southern Alaska, British Columbia, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and Northern California. Birds of the population either sedentary or wander over short distances. Several different between the subspecies are sedentary in the Aleutian and other islands adjacent to Alaska.
In Europe, home to almost everywhere, otsutstvuya only in northern Scandinavia and Russia in the north of Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Perm Oblast and Karelia, as well as in the lower Volga. Believed that the northern limit of their range along the January isotherms at -7C. In most parts of Europe, the birds are sedentary, or wander over short distances, and only in the north-west Russia and Scandinavia in winter migrating. In the southern European part of Russia, with the exception of the Caucasus, the birds are found only in the winter. In Asia are found in the vast territory from Asia Minor to the Far East, Kurile, Commander Islands, and Japan. Live in Turkey, Cyprus, Lebanon, Middle and Central Asia, Kazakhstan, northern China, the Korean Peninsula and the Himalayas. In India, live in the north. In Siberia and the Far East meets East Barguzin ridge, the upper river Olekma and Vitim and Southern Transbaikalia. In Asia, migratory birds, breeding in eastern Siberia and the Far East. Sakhalin. Subcategories living in the islands of Japan, sedentary. In North Africa, are found along the coasts of the Mediterranean and the Atlas Mountains in Morocco.