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[72] 34% of the population was Francophone in 2002, up from 23% in 1992. There are strong regional differences, with the ability to speak French being more common in the south of the country. The Atlantique and Littoral departments have a French-speaking majority. French speakers are more commonly men than women, owing to a disparity in access ...
French is an official language in 27 independent nations. French is also the second most geographically widespread language in the world after English, with about 60 countries and territories having it as a de jure or de facto official, administrative, or cultural language. [1]
This is a list of the member states of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie.These governments belong to an international organisation representing countries and regions where French is the first ("mother") or customary language, where a significant proportion of the population are francophones (French speakers) or where there is a notable affiliation with French culture.
Map showing the member states of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (in blue and green). This map does not exactly represent the francophone space, as it is a political organisation. Proportion of French-speakers (including L2-speakers) by country in 2022 according to the OIF
List of countries and territories where French is an official language; User:Falcaorib/Modern Languages, Nations and Religions; Template:Infobox language/testcases; Category:French-speaking countries and territories
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 01:36, 2 November 2023: 2,560 × 1,314 (1.28 MB): Salvabl: The standard on Wikipedia's world maps is the existence of a border between Morocco and Western Sahara, which is in accordance with the internationally recognized Moroccan borders.
Location map of French America. French America ( French : Amérique française ), sometimes called Franco-America , in contrast to Anglo-America , is the French-speaking community of people and their diaspora , notably those tracing back origins to New France , the early French colonization of the Americas .
The border between North and South America is at some point in the Isthmus of Panama. The most common demarcation in atlases and other sources follows the Darién Mountains watershed that divides along the Colombia–Panama border where the isthmus meets the South American continent (see Darién Gap ).