diff --git a/CosmosDBShell/Azure.Data.Cosmos.Shell.Commands/ListCommand.cs b/CosmosDBShell/Azure.Data.Cosmos.Shell.Commands/ListCommand.cs
index 4372aa8..7c3d900 100644
--- a/CosmosDBShell/Azure.Data.Cosmos.Shell.Commands/ListCommand.cs
+++ b/CosmosDBShell/Azure.Data.Cosmos.Shell.Commands/ListCommand.cs
@@ -92,6 +92,12 @@ async Task<CommandState> IStateVisitor<CommandState, ShellInterpreter>.VisitConn
 
         CosmosCompleteCommand.SetDatabases(state.Client, completionList);
 
+        AnsiConsole.MarkupLine(MessageService.GetString("command-ls-found_databases", new Dictionary<string, object>
+        {
+            { "count", list.Count },
+            { "display", Theme.FormatTableValue(list.Count.ToString()) },
+        }));
+
         var result = new CommandState
         {
             IsPrinted = true,
@@ -136,6 +142,13 @@ private async Task<CommandState> ListDatabaseContainersAsync(ConnectedState stat
 
         CosmosCompleteCommand.SetContainers(state.Client, databaseName, completionList);
 
+        AnsiConsole.MarkupLine(MessageService.GetString("command-ls-found_containers", new Dictionary<string, object>
+        {
+            { "count", list.Count },
+            { "display", Theme.FormatTableValue(list.Count.ToString()) },
+            { "database", Theme.DatabaseNamePromt(databaseName) },
+        }));
+
         var result = new CommandState
         {
             IsPrinted = true,
diff --git a/CosmosDBShell/lang/en.ftl b/CosmosDBShell/lang/en.ftl
index f1bc7e5..a67ee4f 100644
--- a/CosmosDBShell/lang/en.ftl
+++ b/CosmosDBShell/lang/en.ftl
@@ -346,6 +346,18 @@ command-ls-description-container = The container to list items from
 command-ls-description-key = The property to match against (default: container partition key property)
 command-ls-container = Container { $container }
 command-ls-found_items = found { $count } items.
+command-ls-found_databases =
+    { $count ->
+        [0] No databases found.
+        [one] Found { $display } database.
+       *[other] Found { $display } databases.
+    }
+command-ls-found_containers =
+    { $count ->
+        [0] No containers found in database { $database }.
+        [one] Found { $display } container in database { $database }.
+       *[other] Found { $display } containers in database { $database }.
+    }
 command-ls-error-request_failed = List request failed with status code { $statusCode } ({ $status }).
 command-ls-error-no_content_stream = The list request completed, but Cosmos DB returned no response body. This is not an empty-container result; retry the command and use --verbose if it keeps happening.
 command-ls-error-empty_content = The list request completed, but Cosmos DB returned an empty response body. This is not an empty-container result; retry the command and use --verbose if it keeps happening.
diff --git a/docs/commands.md b/docs/commands.md
index 1ea5dca..a35c771 100644
--- a/docs/commands.md
+++ b/docs/commands.md
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ Options:
 
 When `ls` is listing items from a container, it defaults to `100` items if `--max` is not specified. If the limit is hit at runtime, the shell prints a message telling you the results were limited. Use `--max <n>` to choose another limit or `--max 0` or a negative value to disable the limit.
 
+`ls` always prints a summary line for how many results it found. When listing databases it reports the database count (or `No databases found.`), when listing containers it reports the container count for the database (or `No containers found in database ...`), and when listing items it reports the item count. The summary makes it clear when a scope is genuinely empty versus when the listing simply returned nothing.
+
 ### cd
 
 Change scope to database or container.