Countries by Official Language - Map Version

Type the official language of any country, and it will appear on the map!
Source: Wikipedia
Grey indicates no de jure official language. Simply type the de facto official language instead.
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North America
Antigua and Barbuda - English
Bahamas - English
Barbados - English
Belize - English
Canada - English, French
Costa Rica - Spanish
Cuba - Spanish
Dominican Republic - Spanish
Dominica - English
El Salvador - Spanish
Grenada - English
Guatemala - Spanish
Haiti - French, Haitian Creole
Honduras - Spanish
Jamaica - English
Mexico - Spanish
Nicaragua - Spanish
Panama - Spanish
St Kitts and Nevis - English
St Vincent and the Grenadines - English
St Lucia - English
Trinidad and Tobago - English
United States - English
South America
Argentina - Spanish
Bolivia - Castilian (Spanish), Aymara, Araona, Baure, Besiro, Canichana, Cavinena, Cayubaba, Chacobo, Chiman, Ese Ejja, Guarani, Guarasu'we, Guarayu, Itonama, Leco, Machajuyai-Kallawaya, Machineri, Maropa, Mojeno-Ignaciano, Mojeno-Trinitario, More, Moseten, Movima, Pacawara, Puquina, Quechua, Siriono, Tacana, Tapiete, Toromona, Uru-Chipaya, Weenhayek, Yaminawa, Yuki, Zamuco
Brazil - Portuguese
Chile - Spanish
Colombia - Spanish
Ecuador - Spanish, Quechua
Guyana - English
Paraguay - Spanish, Guarani
Peru - Spanish, Aymara, Quechua, Ashaninka
Suriname - Dutch
Uruguay - Spanish
Venezuela - Spanish
Oceania
Australia - English
Federated States of Micronesia - English
Fiji - English, Hindi, Fijian
Kiribati - English, Gilbertese
Marshall Islands - English, Marshallese
Nauru - English, Nauruan
New Zealand - English, Maori
Palau - English, Palauan
Papua New Guinea - English, Tok Pisin, Hiri Motu
Samoa - English, Samoan
Solomon Islands - English
Tonga - English, Tongan
Tuvalu - English, Tuvaluan
Vanuatu - English, French, Bislama
Europe
Albania - Albanian
Andorra - Catalan
Austria - German
Belarus - Russian, Belarussian
Belgium - French, German, Dutch
Bosnia and Herzegovina - Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian
Bulgaria - Bulgarian
Croatia - Croatian
Czechia - Czech, Slovak
Denmark - Danish
Estonia - Estonian
Finland - Finnish, Swedish
France - French
Germany - German
Greece - Greek
Hungary - Hungarian
Iceland - Icelandic
Italy- Italian
Ireland - Irish, English
Kosovo - Serbian, Albanian
Latvia - Latvian
Liechtenstein - German
Lithuania - Lithuanian
Luxembourg - Luxembourgish, French, German
Malta - English, Maltese
Moldova - Romanian
Monaco - French
Montenegro - Montenegrin
Netherlands - Dutch
North Macedonia - Macedonian, Albanian
Norway - Norwegian, Sami
Poland - Polish
Portugal - Portuguese
Romania - Romanian
Russia - Russian
San Marino - Italian
Serbia - Serbian
Slovakia - Slovak
Slovenia - Slovene
Sweden - Swedish
Spain - Spanish
Switzerland - German, French, Italian, Romansh
Ukraine - Ukrainian
United Kingdom - English
Vatican City - Italian, Latin
Africa
Algeria - Arabic, Berber
Angola - Portuguese
Benin - French
Botswana - English
Burkina Faso - French
Burundi - French, English, Kirundi
Cameroon - French, English
Cape Verde - Portuguese
Central African Republic - French, Sango
Chad - Arabic, French
Comoros - Arabic, French, Comorian
Congo - French
Democratic Republic of Congo - French
Djibouti - Arabic, French
Egypt - Arabic
Equatorial Guinea - Spanish, French, Portuguese
Eritrea - Tigrinya
Eswatini - English, Swazi
Ethiopia - Afar, Amharic, Oromo, Somali, Tigrinya
Gabon - French
Gambia - English
Ghana - English
Guinea Bissau - Portuguese
Guinea - French
Ivory Coast - French
Kenya - English, Swahili
Lesotho - English, Sotho
Liberia - English
Libya - Arabic
Madagascar - French, Malagasy
Malawi - English, Chichewa
Mali - Bambara, Bobo, Bozo, Dogon, Fula, Hassaniya, Kassonke, Maninke, Minyanka, Senufo, Songhay, Soninke, Tamasheq
Mauritania - Arabic
Mauritius - English, Morisien
Morocco - Arabic, Berber
Mozambique - Portuguese
Namibia - English
Nigeria - English
Niger - French
Rwanda - French, English, Swahili, Kinyarwanda
Sao Tome and Principe - Portuguese
Senegal - French
Seychelles - French, English, Seselwa
Sierra Leone - English
Somalia - Somali, Arabic
South Africa - Afrikaans, English, Zulu, Xhosa, Venda, South Sotho, Tswana,
North Sotho, Tsonga, Swati, Ndebele
South Sudan - English
Sudan - English, Arabic
Tanzania - English, Swahili
Togo - French
Tunisia - Arabic
Uganda - English, Swahili
Zambia - English
Zimbabwe - English, Shona, Xhosa, Venda, Chewa,
South Sotho, Tswana, Tsonga, Tonga, Ndebele
Asia
Afghanistan - Pashto, Dari
Armenia - Armenian
Azerbaijan - Azerbaijani
Bahrain - Arabic
Bangladesh - Bengali
Bhutan - Dzongkha
Brunei - Malay
Cambodia - Khmer
China - Mandarin
Cyprus - Turkish, Greek
East Timor - Portuguese, Tetum
Georgia - Georgian
India - English, Hindi
Indonesia - Indonesian
Iran - Persian
Iraq - Arabic, Kurdish
Israel - Hebrew
Japan - Japanese
Jordan - Arabic
Kazakhstan - Russian, Kazakh
Kuwait - Arabic
Kyrgyzstan - Russian, Kyrgyz
Laos - Lao
Lebanon - Arabic
Malaysia - Malay
Maldives - Dhivehi
Mongolia - Mongolian
Myanmar - Burmese
Nepal - Nepali
North Korea - Korean
Oman - Arabic
Pakistan - English, Urdu
Philippines - English, Filipino
Qatar - Arabic
Saudi Arabia - Arabic
Singapore - English, Mandarin, Malay, Tamil
South Korea - Korean
Sri Lanka - Tamil, Sinhala
Syria - Arabic
Taiwan - Mandarin
Tajikistan - Tajik
Thailand - Thai
Turkey - Turkish
Turkmenistan - Turkmen
United Arab Emirates - Arabic
Uzbekistan - Uzbek
Vietnam - Vietnamese
Yemen - Arabic
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Level 63
Dec 11, 2023
Completely revised this quiz again, this time using Wikipedia instead of the notoriously unreliable Google Answers. Thank you to everyone who pointed out the many mistakes, the quiz should now be up to standards.
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Level 75
Jan 9, 2021
Phew, that was great!

BTW, for Bolivia, Spanish and Quechua didn't work for some reason. Bolivia has Spanish and the many other languages spoken in rural areas as its official languages:

Part 1, Title 1, Chapter 1, Article 5 of the Bolivian constitution:

"The official languages of the State are Spanish and all the languages of the rural native indigenous nations and peoples, which are Aymara, Araona, Baure, Bésiro, Canichana, Cavineño, Cayubaba, Chácobo, Chimán, Ese Ejja, Guaraní, Guarasu'we, Guarayu, Itonama, Leco, Machajuyai-kallawaya, Machineri, Maropa, Mojeñotrinitario, Mojeño-ignaciano, Moré, Mosetén, Movima, Pacawara, Puquina, Quechua, Sirionó, Tacana, Tapiete, Toromona, Uruchipaya, Weenhayek, Yaminawa, Yuki, Yuracaré and Zamuco."

Quechua is also an official language of Peru.

Have fun...!

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Level 56
Aug 1, 2021
"Dhevehi" should be "Dhivehi".
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Level 63
Sep 5, 2021
Completely overhauled this quiz, the problems stated above have been fixed, and the grid expanded to contain the countries and their corresponding languages.
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Level 71
Sep 10, 2021
I don't quite understand, for some of the countries with more than one official language either one is accepted, but for some only one of them (for example Ireland only takes Irish).

And there should be more type-ins allowed for several languages. I think there should be official type-ins available for all of these language names (except for the minority languages of Bolivia).

Oh, and Tok Pisin is misspelled.

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Level 44
Nov 9, 2021
Why don't you accept Maldivian language?
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Level 63
Nov 9, 2021
Dhevhi is the Maldivan language. It is accepted.
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Level 62
Nov 9, 2021
Yes, but it is frequently just called the Maldivian language - I'm not sure why Dhivehi should be required.
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Level 63
Nov 9, 2021
Oh, I required it because that is it's actual name, same as I'm not accepting Cambodian for Khmer.
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Level 65
Nov 9, 2021
"Maldivian" is one of the names for the language in English, probably more common than Dhivehi. No reason not to accept it.
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Level 49
Dec 7, 2021
Maldivian is Dhevhi in English. That's like only accepting Espanol for Spanish.
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Level 73
Dec 12, 2023
*Español
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Level 62
Nov 9, 2021
Shouldn't countries without official languages (e.g. US) not be included?
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Level 66
Nov 9, 2021
Read the caveat
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Level 63
Apr 5, 2022
yup
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Level 59
Dec 5, 2021
The Africa column doesn't have a white background like the others.
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Level 63
Dec 5, 2021
Fixed
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Level 47
Dec 20, 2021
Why do you accept only Romanian and Moldovan as the same? In this case, you should accept Farsi for Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan as well since they are all dialects of the same language. Also, plz accept Bangla, Azeri, Slovene and Magyar for Bengali, Azerbaijani, Slovene, and Magyar accordingly.
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Level 57
Aug 29, 2022
moldovan speaks romanian, thats why
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Level 57
Aug 29, 2022
Magyar isn't a name we use in English.
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Level 49
Apr 12, 2022
Could you accept Portugese for Portuguese.
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Level 63
Jul 5, 2022
Sorry, but spelling is key!
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Level 57
Aug 29, 2022
please accept slovene for slovenian, as it is an alternate name
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Level 46
Mar 6, 2023
Bangla
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Level 55
Dec 6, 2023
Great quiz but there a few things that need to be fixed.

Quechua is an official language of Peru. Maldivian should work for Dhivehi as it is the most commonly used name in English (it's like only accepting Français for French). Swazi is misspelled. Dzongkha is misspelled. Mali changed its official languages and now there are 13 different ones (none of which is French). Oromo, Afar, Tigrinya and Somali are also official languages of Ethiopia. And Tigrinya is the official language of Eritrea, not Amharic.

Overall though, this was a very good quiz.

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Level 61
Mar 8, 2024
It seems that not all Bolivian languages are accepted, and can you accept Azeri for Azerbaijani
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Level 63
Mar 8, 2024
For #1, you're right, it would seem I made a mistake regarding typeins during the last update. #2 added
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Level 63
Mar 12, 2024
OK, all Bolivian languages now work as type-ins.