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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.
The Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF; sometimes shortened to the Francophonie, French: La Francophonie [la fʁɑ̃kɔfɔni], [3] [note 3] sometimes also called International Organisation of La Francophonie in English [4]) is an international organization representing where there is a notable affiliation with French language and culture.
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]
Vietnam is the largest Francophone country in Asia and is a member of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF). Since the 1990s, the Vietnamese government in cooperation with the French government, has promoted French-language education in the country's schooling system, acknowledging the cultural and historic value of the ...
The summit meets every four years in a different country and enables ministers and heads of state to coordinate public policies in support of the economies of French-speaking countries. There is also the Réseau francophone de l'innovation (FINNOV [ 10 ] ) and the Alliance des patronats francophones [ 11 ] (34 membre-states in 2024), which ...
A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Francophone in both English and French. French is an official language in 27 countries, as well as one of the most geographically widespread languages in the world, with about 50 countries and territories having it as a de jure or de facto official, administrative, or cultural language. [4]
Amid broad debate about French language's place in France's former African colonies, Algeria is denying that efforts to force Francophone private schools to adopt the country's national curriculum ...
MEA: Middle East and Africa [citation needed] MEASEA : Middle East, Africa and South East Asia [citation needed] MEATI: Middle East, Africa, Turkey & India [13] MEESA: Middle East, Eastern and Southern Africa [citation needed] MEISA: Middle East, Indian Subcontinent and Africa [14] MENA: Middle East and North Africa