Five Countries with the Most Speakers by Language

For each language, can you name the five countries with the most speakers?
Only including L1 speakers
According to Wikipedia and Ethnologue
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English
226 mil
United States
54.4 mil
United Kingdom
18.8 mil
Canada
15.0 mil
Australia
4.9 mil
South Africa
 
 
Spanish
113 mil
Mexico
48.0 mil
Colombia
40.3 mil
Argentina
40.0 mil
United States
38.2 mil
Spain
French
60.6 mil
France
7.2 mil
Canada
4.1 mil
Belgium
1.8 mil
Switzerland
1.3 mil
United States
 
 
Portuguese
202 mil
Brazil
24.6 mil
Mozambique
24.3 mil
Angola
10.8 mil
Portugal
1.6 mil
Guinea-Bissau
German
74 mil
Germany
7 mil
Austria
5 mil
Switzerland
3 mil
Brazil
1.5 mil
United States
 
 
Arabic
82.4 mil
Egypt
40.1 mil
Algeria
28.1 mil
Sudan
25.0 mil
Morocco
22.9 mil
Iraq
Italian
57 mil
Italy
645,000
Switzerland
30,000
San Marino
18,600
Croatia
3,760
Slovenia
 
 
Russian
137 mil
Russia
14.3 mil
Ukraine
6.6 mil
Belarus
4.0 mil
Uzbekistan
3.7 mil
Kazakhstan
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Level 60
Jan 3, 2017
Great idea, Italian was a bit tough.
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Level 65
Jan 3, 2017
Thanks!
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Level 67
Jan 3, 2017
Are there really than many L1 speakers in Mozambique and Angola? Pretty sure those are mostly L2 speakers
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Level 65
Jan 3, 2017
According to Wikipedia, there are that many L1 Lusophone speakers.
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Level 85
Jan 3, 2017
Interesting but for some I wonder ..... Does all of Guinea Bissau speak Portuguese as a first language or as L1? Also in Canada, 400,000 people list Italian as their first language. Granted, I'm not sure how L1 speakers are classified but surely first language or mother tongue should count.
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Level 65
Jan 3, 2017
I couldn't find a source backing Canada.
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Level 64
Jan 23, 2017
Great quiz!
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Level 65
Jan 23, 2017
Thank you :)
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Level 41
Jun 24, 2017
After flciking around articles, Wikipedia says that there are at least 224,000 German L1 speakers in Italy (in South Tyrol), and 100,000 German L1 speakers in Poland.

Although these numbers are conflicting, it says there are 3million German speakers in Brazil , 1.5million in the USA, 400,000 in Argentina, 79,000 in Australia, 9,000 im Belize, 160,000 in Bolivia, 200,000 in Israel (don't know how much this overlaps Yiddish though), 22,500 in Namibia, 36,000 in New Zealand, 166,000 in Paraguay, 12,000 in South Africa and 28,000 in Uruguay, in many forms of dialect.

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Level 65
Jun 24, 2017
Thanks, this is great! We've updated the quiz accordingly.