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Countries and territories where French is an official language
- DjiboutiDjibouti is a country in the Horn of Africa, and it carries the smallest population in mainland Africa. The 2024 census counted 1,066,809 people, recorded on…
- MauritiusMauritius sits roughly 1100 nautical miles off the southeastern coast of East Africa, east of Madagascar, an island country in the Indian Ocean.
- Burkina FasoBurkina Faso sits at the heart of West Africa, entirely landlocked, ringed by six countries and a history that refuses to be still.
- SenegalSenegal occupies a singular position on the map of Africa: it is the westernmost country on the entire mainland of the Old World, the very edge of…
- HaitiHaiti is the only country in history established by a slave revolt. On the 1st of January 1804, in the town of Gonaives, the leaders of the Haitian…
- Democratic Republic of the CongoThe Democratic Republic of the Congo holds enough cobalt to power the world's electric cars, yet ranks 171 out of 193 countries on the Human Development…
- CanadaCanada is the second-largest country in the world by total area, yet most of its people cluster in a thin band near a single neighbour.
- FranceFrance received 102 million foreign visitors in 2025, more than any other country on Earth. Behind that number sits a stranger fact.
- WalloniaWallonia covers 55 percent of Belgium's territory, yet holds only 31 percent of its population. That imbalance sits at the heart of one of Europe's most…
- BelgiumBelgium sits at the crossroads of Northwestern Europe, squeezed between France, the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg, and the North Sea, covering just 30,689…
- Ivory CoastIvory Coast holds a distinction that few nations on earth can claim: it supplies more cocoa beans to the world than any other country.
- BrusselsBrussels carries two identities at once, and both are real. It is the capital of Belgium, seat of a monarchy that dates to 1831, and at the same time the de…
- QuebecQuebec occupies nearly three times the landmass of France, yet most of that territory is so sparsely populated that the majority of its roughly eight million…
- SwitzerlandSwitzerland sits at the crossroads of four languages, three mountain ranges, and a thousand years of deliberate self-invention.