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French-Speaking Countries Quiz

Can you name the countries where more than 25% of people speak French (not necessarily as a first language).
2018, according to the Francophonie via Wikipedia
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First submittedDecember 19, 2011
Times taken173,713
Average score55.2%
Rating4.77
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Country
97%
France
97%
Monaco
92%
Luxembourg
75%
Belgium
73%
Mauritius
70%
Andorra
67%
Switzerland
66%
Gabon
63%
Algeria
59%
Rep. of the Congo
%
Country
53%
Seychelles
52%
Tunisia
51%
D.R. Congo
50%
Djibouti
42%
Haiti
41%
Cameroon
40%
Togo
38%
Lebanon
35%
Morocco
33%
Benin
%
Country
33%
Ivory Coast
32%
Vanuatu
29%
Canada
29%
Equatorial Guinea
28%
Central African Republic
26%
Comoros
26%
Senegal
25%
Guinea
25%
Portugal
ruudsje
+15
Level 70
Dec 19, 2011
Très jolie!
KAYVAN
+1
Level 25
Mar 26, 2022
you know whats stupid belgium does NOT HAVE that much french speakers theres more people in the flanders the dutch side then in wallonia
uhren
+2
Level 47
May 26, 2022
I thought people in Brussels also spoke french
Inferno46
+7
Level 55
Jun 29, 2022
There are a lot of people in Belgium that do speak French, whether it is in Wallonia or Flanders, though Wallonia does have a lot more.
username729
+15
Level 39
Dec 19, 2011
Lol. I got 18 right, but I missed Canada.
sillie
+5
Level 78
May 16, 2014
I got 19 and missed Belgium and Luxembourg!
kiwiquizzer
+4
Level 67
Aug 28, 2016
I got 21 and missed Canada!
Account
+3
Level 59
Jul 12, 2021
22 and no Canada
carlonian
+3
Level 66
Jul 29, 2021
24 and no Canada. Seriously...
Flod4rmore
+3
Level 48
Jul 29, 2021
i got 26 and no Canada xd
Milsh4ke
+1
Level 56
Oct 13, 2022
As a quebecois, I am offended /j
jackieeeeeee
+1
Level 17
Aug 22, 2021
i only got canada and france o-o
xolkan
+23
Level 50
Dec 20, 2011
sigh I missed Cote D'Ivoire. A country that derives its name from French.
NIsForNickk
+3
Level 24
Nov 24, 2017
same
TheCrusher
+13
Level 72
Aug 3, 2021
I doesn't derive its name from French: it is French.
sergeantmalice
+1
Level 57
Aug 18, 2022
stop it. get some help.
zoidberg
+5
Level 41
Dec 20, 2011
I missed Canada!! Urg
theLAYTshow
+5
Level 37
Jan 17, 2012
Maybe accept CAR for Central African Republic?
Quizmaster
+8
Level ∞
Aug 23, 2015
Yes, CAR will work now.
wiifly
+36
Level 56
Jul 29, 2021
vroom vroom
CordobaCapital
+2
Level 64
Mar 20, 2022
Oh wow. Thanks for the chuckle!
shanetaylor
+5
Level 28
Feb 19, 2012
Vanuatu :D!
Guyinasuit
+4
Level 27
Apr 17, 2012
14/25...eh, not so good on places with French colonial influences...still can't believe I forgot Canada :P
MyFavoriteColorIsGreen
+3
Level 11
Jan 28, 2013
I only got 2. France and Canada... I'm dumb.
kiwiquizzer
+49
Level 67
Oct 12, 2017
You are not dumb. You are learning.
IsleAuHaulte
+12
Level 87
Jul 24, 2018
Now learn the French word vert.
JackintheBox
+10
Level 77
Sep 5, 2019
But... you had four minutes to guess any country other than France and Canada..
DonTheLamplighter
+11
Level 84
Nov 5, 2019
I would've done better if they accepted answers like "Pennsylvania", "the movies" and "McDonalds".
IsleAuHaulte
+2
Level 87
Dec 20, 2020
I blame them for everyone now pronouncing fillet as filet. Soon frappe will be their dumb frapet pronunciation.
patat
+4
Level 17
Mar 24, 2013
I got 17 but missed Canada..that's lame
LadyQuizling
+5
Level 54
May 21, 2014
Harder than I expected. And I speak French! I should have got Canada and Tunisia. Je suis bete!
SilverFlute
+15
Level 23
Jul 3, 2016
Accent! ACCENT! Police, police, police! 999!!!!!
qcumber
+4
Level 46
May 26, 2018
lol
daQuokka
+5
Level 65
Sep 5, 2020
*BÊTE!!!
Realpensylvanian
+1
Level 41
Apr 27, 2022
Tunisia is surprisingly a lot more proficient in French than I thought, guess being a colony for almost a century will do that.
Inferno46
+1
Level 55
Jun 29, 2022
Especially when sometimes its forced onto you.
lucd13
+3
Level 68
Jun 19, 2014
Very surprised about Bénin, but not a bad result.
Possums
+9
Level 31
Jun 21, 2016
Not really if you think about the countries surrounding it
wiifly
+12
Level 56
Dec 17, 2020
Or the fact the it was a French colony
sprk
+3
Level 62
Oct 19, 2014
I will be extremely concerned once the France answer in this quiz drops to 99%. It seems inevitable...
buck1017
+4
Level 77
Aug 24, 2015
97% as of 8/24/15
DeusCaritasEst
+15
Level 55
Sep 7, 2015
Are you sure that's not the percentage of French-speaking citizens France has that you're looking at?
JackintheBox
+4
Level 77
Aug 6, 2020
@DeusCaritasEst 😂🤣
tshalla
+1
Level 74
Jul 15, 2022
Well, the number would have been far lower than that (lower than 50% most likely) prior to the standardization of Parisian French and the institution of a national education system in the second half of the 19th Century. But feel free to blame that subtly on Muslims too if you like.
Vivelageo
+1
Level 28
Nov 12, 2022
Mdrrr tout seul là mon reuf t'es complètement à côté de la plaque
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Aug 23, 2015
This quiz has been updated with the latest data.
kalbahamut
+2
Level 84
Sep 7, 2015
oh yeah, Ivory Coast.. duh..
Elan
+4
Level 64
Sep 7, 2015
Biggest facepalm ever I completely forgot about Canada.
mishmosh
+2
Level 46
Sep 7, 2015
+1
fh2796
+2
Level 59
Sep 8, 2015
Oh God.. How could I forget our neighbours in Switzerland as a German?!? ^^
Maxnorrac
+2
Level 41
Dec 1, 2015
Switzerland has not 66%... this seems to be the percentage for German-speaking ones (I'm a French-speaking Swiss and I can tell you we represent less than 1/4 of the total population).

According to Wikipedia, there are 22% French-speaking Swiss people.

Cedo
+15
Level 39
Dec 5, 2015
read the description : "not necessarily as a first language". It's not about your people, it's about people who can speak french.
Carry
+5
Level 64
Feb 3, 2016
Just follow the source. It says: "No distinctions are made between native speakers of French and those who learnt it as a foreign language, between different levels of mastery or how often the language is used in daily life."
wiifly
+3
Level 56
Dec 17, 2020
Many people learn both French and German, And sometimes Romansh or Italian, just for ease of life for someone who has a different first language. For quizzes like these it's complicated because Switzerland has 4 main languages.
Findlay
+3
Level 83
Oct 10, 2016
Missed Luxembourg despite it being obvious. Missed Morocco and Equatorial Guinea - I was under impression the only widespread European language there was Spanish. Having read more I now see I was very wrong in the case of Morocco.
divantilya
+3
Level 37
Dec 9, 2016
If you had seen Casablanca, you would not have forgotten Morocco!
fitheach
+6
Level 59
Jan 3, 2018
What if you haven't seen Casablanca...?
qcumber
+3
Level 46
May 26, 2018
i tried luxembourg, but to honest i always thought it was more german...
Gotterdammerung
+2
Level 51
Nov 21, 2016
I thought more people spoke German in Switzerland than French.
JBlouw1850
+5
Level 44
Nov 21, 2016
I've heard that the Swiss are very multilingual. German, French, Italian, and Romansch are all official languages, so they probably learn more than one in school.
divantilya
+1
Level 37
Nov 8, 2017
So are most Europeans. When you are surrounded by countries that speak a language other than your own, you tend to learn those languages in school. (This holds true for "territories" of European countries as well).
wiifly
+1
Level 56
Dec 17, 2020
Just like how many Swedes know Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian and English, and sometimes German and Danish.
DrunkytheSnowman
+2
Level 57
Jan 27, 2022
LIES! No Swedish person knows Danish. It's simply not possible. They would explode if they tried.
vinsuse77
+1
Level 69
Feb 5, 2017
I'm surprised Lebanon still has some French influence.
fcalvaresi
+8
Level 37
Sep 9, 2017
France still has an excellent image in Lebanon, especially within the Maronites. They saw France as their protector during the nineteenth century and then France created Lebanon to be their homeland.
TheCrusher
+1
Level 72
Aug 3, 2021
I knew Lebanon because there are quite a few French-speaking Lebanese here in Montréal. In fact, I've often heard that there's more Lebanese people living outside of Lebanon than in their actual country.
Jacktheguy
+1
Level 88
Mar 20, 2022
That was one of the two that I missed
Clovis26
+2
Level 27
May 24, 2017
Randomly guessed lebanon and it was correct :D
cosmokim
+1
Level 65
Jul 19, 2017
Facepalmed at missing Haiti.
Marius1882
+1
Level 45
Aug 22, 2017
Woww Luxembourg...Luxembourgish...
Archer1212
+1
Level 61
Sep 9, 2017
i fell one short of the average score, but only got 1 point? what gives?
bobcarbonara
+3
Level 48
Sep 9, 2017
Well Switzerland with 77% is absolutely wrong. Burkina Faso is missing ; Niger as well (not Nigeria... but Niger is largely french speaking).
fitheach
+3
Level 59
Oct 11, 2017
Have you even looked at the source given at the top (I suspect not). And the quiz is not about first language speakers, so the stat about Switzerland is likely to be correct (the Swiss being famed multi-linguists).
divantilya
+10
Level 37
Oct 11, 2017
Just about all Europeans and a surprising number of Africans and Latin Americans are multi-lingual. We seem to be one of the few "civilized" countries which tenaciously clings to our mono-lingualism as if it were a badge of honor.
wiifly
+1
Level 56
Dec 17, 2020
They were just saying that Switzerland has 4 official languages jeez.
lexxie
+1
Level 74
Mar 22, 2022
I wouldn't say that all Europeans are multilingual. Most Europeans still only speak their language and maybe English fluently. Many older generations in most European countries don't speak English at all. Also, most people who come from non-English countries need English (the world language) to co-exist with other cultures in this world.
bobcarbonara
+4
Level 48
Sep 9, 2017
And Chad, Chad is also French speaking.
roadrage
+4
Level 68
Oct 24, 2018
You are absolutely right. Also I do not believe that the percentage of french speakers in some of these countries like Equatorial Guinea for example are more than in a country like Guinea (formerly known as French Guinea)
wiifly
+1
Level 56
Dec 17, 2020
Or you could just believe that despite Colonial Times, sometimes places that aren't France stop being like France? Maybe?

And sometimes stuff is weird in Geopolitical history and the complicated network of foreign influence across time and different nation, setting aside that it's with something as tangible as language?

mightythor
+1
Level 66
Oct 9, 2017
Surprised not East Timor, given they (also) go by Timor Leste.
ing
+16
Level 72
Aug 2, 2019
That name is Portuguese.
dunkinggandalf2
+11
Level 67
Nov 8, 2020
It is indeed not a French name. In French, we call it "Timor Oriental".
mahble
+2
Level 75
Oct 9, 2017
I missed CAR and Lebanon. I always forget the existence of CAR, but I am surprised about Lebanon.
smartguy2
+4
Level 66
Feb 3, 2019
In Lebanon, everyone knows either Arabic or French, or both. French influence still exists from before Lebanon became a country.
mf3
+3
Level 86
Jul 24, 2021
Actually, French seems to be on the way out in Lebanon, replaced by English. Virtually all signs, billboards etc. are in English. Only the old street-naming signs from colonial days seem to be in French. And in cafes etc., when you're clearly not a local, you'll be addressed in English, not French.
GreedyGretchen
+2
Level 45
Oct 9, 2017
I got 26 but I missed France :'(
stoodmarsh
+1
Level 35
Jun 9, 2020
you got all of the french-speaking countries but FRANCE... bruh
BrianDunn
+2
Level 50
Oct 9, 2017
3% actually missed France?
StanJisoo
+2
Level 59
Oct 9, 2017
I CAN NOT believe I missed SEYCHELLES and VANUATU. To think, two countries so RENOWNED for speaking French completely slipped my mind.
lexxie
+4
Level 74
Mar 22, 2022
Renowned? Vanuatu? Don't think many people have even heard about that country.
Qy
+1
Level 60
Nov 30, 2022
Is this some higher form of meta-sarcasm? Deep.
ruudsje
+1
Level 70
Oct 9, 2017
the 5 i missed are all from the middle column. is that weird?
MatB
+1
Level 39
Oct 23, 2017
What about Rwanda?
fitheach
+3
Level 59
Jan 3, 2018
The source says 6% for Rwanda, so not even close to being included. English has been replacing French as the main international language in Rwanda since the war and genocide in the 1990s.
vziliak
+1
Level 31
Feb 22, 2018
ROC for republic of congo?
MaxStickies
+4
Level 78
Apr 20, 2020
Surely typing congo is easy enough?
JackintheBox
+3
Level 77
Aug 6, 2020
ROC is accepted as a type-in for Taiwan (Republic of China) on JetPunk.
iknowthings
+1
Level 62
Apr 16, 2018
I knew Andorra didn’t speak Spanish!
FilipinoAmericaBall
+8
Level 44
May 6, 2018
Correct, they speak Catalan as their primary language!
dunkinggandalf2
+5
Level 67
Nov 8, 2020
And there's also like four of them, so if just one took French in high school, the whole country already qualifies for this quiz!
Nekroix
+1
Level 50
Nov 25, 2021
People in Andorra speak Catalan and Spanish not much french.
Saharienne
+1
Level 67
Jul 10, 2018
I was sure Niger and Burundi would be on this list, since French is an official language in both countries...
Niciquiz
+1
Level 33
Jan 14, 2019
The number for Switzerland is not what the source says
Victoulapin
+3
Level 66
Feb 7, 2019
Very surprising not to find Rwanda, Burundi, Mali or Burkina Faso here... In those countries the education starting from high school is often only in French, so even if it's only a minority I was expecting an highest turnout. Same for Madagascar
rjoal
+1
Level 57
Mar 1, 2019
Same here. I travelled quite extensively in Africa and there's no way Equatorial Guinea or CAR are up there while Burkina Faso isn't... But hey those are figures from the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie. I guess they didn't do they job properly.
JackintheBox
+1
Level 77
Aug 6, 2020
their*
Quizmaster
+4
Level ∞
Mar 1, 2019
As a casual observer you likely have sampling bias. The people you are most likely to encounter are going to have better language skills than average. Only about 15% of Rwandans attend high school. Also, Rwanda is switching to English, so it will probably never make this list.
mf3
+2
Level 86
Jul 24, 2021
Yes, my first thought on this was, good golly, you missed Mali.
rjoal
+1
Level 57
Mar 1, 2019
Following the Wikipedia source, new countries should be included if the chosen cut-off is 25%: Portugal, Guinea and Sénégal.
Quizmaster
+3
Level ∞
Mar 1, 2019
I'll take a look next time we update. I imagine that more African countries will be added to the list over time as formal schooling increases. Although there's also a chance that schools would choose to teach in English instead, which is the no-brainer move in terms of making your economy more competitive.
GeoDude
+1
Level 48
Mar 20, 2019
I expected Vietnam to be here. Guess the language has been on the decline there.
kalbahamut
+4
Level 84
May 21, 2019
Yeah not even close. Fewer than 1% of Vietnamese people speak French. There are more in Cambodia and Laos, but still not very many.
JWatson24
+2
Level 71
Mar 20, 2022
They still use the French (Latin) alphabet though. I've always found it weird that they chose to adopt that, given that they have a history of rejecting foreign influence (France, the US, China).
KrazyKookieKing
+1
Level 45
Apr 10, 2019
Anyone who didn't get France is 3
Yoshimano
+2
Level 63
May 29, 2020
How about Burkina Faso, Niger, Burundi, Ghana and Rwanda ? Can't hardly believe these are under the 25% mark
wydadman
+2
Level 21
Oct 15, 2021
ghana were not a french colony anyway
DrunkytheSnowman
+1
Level 57
Jan 27, 2022
Neither were a lot of the answers in this quiz but Ghana is surrounded by French speaking nations and contains a lot of immigrants from those countries so while it isn't enough to make the list it would still be a perfectly reasonable guess.
FatSpartanJediLlama
+1
Level 61
May 29, 2020
Interesting quiz, I somehow decided to guess Vanuatu and it paid off haha
FatSpartanJediLlama
+2
Level 61
May 29, 2020
Pretty sure I tried Equatorial Guinea, but I usually think of that as Spanish to begin with so I generally wouldn't guess it.
MichielP
+1
Level 38
Jun 16, 2020
Really fun quiz! Can't believe I forgot Canada :o

As a Belgian I can say that only 40/45% of the country has French as mother tongue, the other 55/60% speaks Dutch ;-)

ceeceetop
+1
Level 26
Sep 5, 2020
So, where is French Polynesia on this quiz?
stoodmarsh
+4
Level 35
Sep 5, 2020
not a sovereign state
CS
+1
Level 66
Oct 24, 2020
How is Morocco guessed more than Monaco?
IsleAuHaulte
+3
Level 87
Dec 20, 2020
The Vatican doesn't seem to like to keep records of anything, but I'm willing to bet 1/4 of their population can speak French. 100% of the population is at least bilingual. Easily the most polyglot nation on Earth.
Munchkin
+1
Level 40
Mar 16, 2021
I got 11 and I missed morocco
Tomo234
+1
Level 25
Jun 3, 2021
Me Monaco
Tomo234
+1
Level 25
Jun 3, 2021
I got 12 and I missed Monaco
fromaj
+1
Level 68
Jul 12, 2021
Is this counting creoles?
Yoshimano
+1
Level 63
Jul 12, 2021
only those from Créolie
Yoshimano
+2
Level 63
Jul 12, 2021
so pissed I forgot about Senegal, Vanuatu and Lebanon!

didn't think so much in Portugal though

Thanks, QM!

Fresco3
+1
Level 67
Jul 13, 2021
Lol, 24/29 but forgot Canada
ShievaAndGolly
+1
Level 52
Jul 29, 2021
Aren't most of these former french colonies?
Geoguessin
+1
Level 67
Jul 29, 2021
LMAO How could I forget my own country!!!!! Sorry Portugal!
alligatorsyes
+1
Level 46
Jul 29, 2021
didn't get portugal :(
levic
+3
Level 65
Jul 29, 2021
I wonder why Portugal has so many french spealing people
KevinF
+6
Level 50
Jul 31, 2021
During the dictatorship, many Portuguese went into exile in France. I am guessing they retained their French when they returned.
maple
+1
Level 53
Jul 29, 2021
I even got Portugal, but not BELGIUM....??? idk how
Matulkus
+2
Level 41
Jul 29, 2021
Was really surprised Burkina Faso isn't on there! But after looking it up: despite it being the official language of business only 15% of the population speak French.
FatSpartanJediLlama
+2
Level 61
Jul 30, 2021
Portugal is an interesting one, for Lebanon I was thinking there was a country in that region that spoke a bit of French but I couldn't get it
Snoflakes
+3
Level 67
Aug 4, 2021
Portugal? That's new... How is Portugal so proficient in French?
Wolfskin1
+1
Level 28
Oct 3, 2021
NZ You Forgot New Zealand
wydadman
+1
Level 21
Oct 15, 2021
all the countries in this list but france are victims! Such a shame they still speak the language of the occupying force!
Vivelageo
+1
Level 28
Nov 12, 2022
The famous occupying force of Portugal 🤡
wydadman
+3
Level 21
Oct 15, 2021
A very sad list of france victims
nerdalert
+1
Level 82
Oct 19, 2021
I'm sure they appreciate your opinion of them as "sad" countries.
yadoya
+2
Level 21
Oct 23, 2021
Fun, the President of the "victims" still says it was better when the French were there, because at least they had infrastructures, railways, roads and hospitals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRmYeVJ58Fk

Dimby
+4
Level 73
Jan 12, 2022
There are many countries who suffered at the hands of colonial France. Anyway, your point is silly. Creating public infrastructure in your colonies because you want to create new trade markets does not forgive the various massacres, genocides, and lack of human rights during the Age of Imperialism. Heck, France committed atrocities as late as the 1960s whilst trying to hold onto Algeria. Putting victims in quotation marks makes it sound like you think it's OK to do awful things to thousands of human being as longs as you make the economy better.
yadoya
+1
Level 21
Oct 23, 2021
What about Burkina Faso? :(
PjotrL
+2
Level 73
Jun 2, 2022
It's official, but apparently only 15% of the people actually use it on day-to-day basis. As it is part of the education system, I think you could argue it's likely more than 25% would be able to speak/understand French?
mhoegg
+1
Level 73
Feb 5, 2022
Portugal ? Really ?
Batttt
+1
Level 27
Mar 9, 2022
Andorra 70%? I think you are wrong, there are maybe 7% speaking french in Andorra, while most of them use Catalan and Spanish.
Danymo60
+1
Level 28
Mar 20, 2022
I am portuguese and I can guarantee that the number in this quiz is wrong. There is just no way 25% of the population speaks french.
GeoGeniusThe1
+1
Level 37
May 6, 2022
Cant belive that i forgot Monaco !!!!!!
apostmi
+1
Level 20
Jun 2, 2022
portugal?
GreenGeographer
+1
Level 44
Jun 29, 2022
got all but Portugal
gerleps974
+1
Level 23
Nov 10, 2022
24/29 but i am french
NadavHartman
+1
Level 47
Dec 6, 2022
No way, In Equatorial Guinea they do not speak French, they speak Spanish, and Bantu languages.
FatSpartanJediLlama
+1
Level 61
Feb 16, 2023
I think Spanish has a much higher percentage but French is still common
FatSpartanJediLlama
+1
Level 61
Feb 16, 2023
Portugal's an easy one to miss
miningaway
+1
Level 58
Mar 21, 2023
ah yes, Portugal, my favorite French speaking country
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