Part 301
Egypt arable land: 2.92% permanent crops: 0.5% other: 96.58% (2005)
El Salvador arable land: 31.37% permanent crops: 11.88% other: 56.75% (2005)
Equatorial Guinea arable land: 4.63% permanent crops: 3.57% other: 91.8% (2005)
Eritrea arable land: 4.78% permanent crops: 0.03% other: 95.19% (2005)
Estonia arable land: 12.05% permanent crops: 0.35% other: 87.6% (2005)
Ethiopia arable land: 10.01% permanent crops: 0.65% other: 89.34% (2005)
European Union arable land: NA permanent crops: NA other: NA
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) arable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% other: 100% (99% permanent pastures, 1% other) (2005)
Faroe Islands arable land: 2.14% permanent crops: 0% other: 97.86% (2005)
Fiji arable land: 10.95% permanent crops: 4.65% other: 84.4% (2005)
Finland arable land: 6.54% permanent crops: 0.02% other: 93.44% (2005)
France arable land: 33.46% permanent crops: 2.03% other: 64.51% note: French Guiana - arable land 0.13%, permanent crops 0.04%, other 99.83% (90% forest, 10% other); Guadeloupe - arable land 11.70%, permanent crops 2.92%, other 85.38%; Martinique - arable land 9.09%, permanent crops 10.0%, other 80.91%; Reunion - arable land 13.94%, permanent crops 1.59%, other 84.47% (2005)
French Polynesia arable land: 0.75% permanent crops: 5.5% other: 93.75% (2005)
French Southern and Antarctic Lands Ile Amsterdam (Ile Amsterdam et Ile Saint-Paul) - 100% trees, grasses, ferns, and moss; Ile Saint-Paul (Ile Amsterdam et Ile Saint-Paul) - 100% grass, ferns, and moss; Iles Crozet - 100% tossock grass, heath, and fern; Iles Kerguelen - 100% tossock grass and Kerguelen cabbage; Bassas da India (Iles Eparses) - 100% rock, coral reef, and sand; Europa Island (Iles Eparses) - 100% mangrove swamp and dry woodlands; Glorioso Islands (Iles Eparses) - 100% lush vegetation and coconut palms; Juan de Nova Island (Iles Eparses) - 90% forest, 10% other; Tromelin Island (Iles Eparses) - 100% grasses and scattered brush (2005)
Gabon arable land: 1.21% permanent crops: 0.64% other: 98.15% (2005)
Gambia, The arable land: 27.88% permanent crops: 0.44% other: 71.68% (2005)
Gaza Strip arable land: 29% permanent crops: 21% other: 50% (2002)
Georgia arable land: 11.51% permanent crops: 3.79% other: 84.7% (2005)
Germany arable land: 33.13% permanent crops: 0.6% other: 66.27% (2005)
Ghana arable land: 17.54% permanent crops: 9.22% other: 73.24% (2005)
Gibraltar arable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% other: 100% (2005)
Greece arable land: 20.45% permanent crops: 8.59% other: 70.96% (2005)
Greenland arable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% other: 100% (2005)
Grenada arable land: 5.88% permanent crops: 29.41% other: 64.71% (2005)
Guam arable land: 3.64% permanent crops: 18.18% other: 78.18% (2005)
Guatemala arable land: 13.22% permanent crops: 5.6% other: 81.18% (2005)
Guernsey arable land: NA permanent crops: NA other: NA
Guinea arable land: 4.47% permanent crops: 2.64% other: 92.89% (2005)
Guinea-Bissau arable land: 8.31% permanent crops: 6.92% other: 84.77% (2005)
Guyana arable land: 2.23% permanent crops: 0.14% other: 97.63% (2005)
Haiti arable land: 28.11% permanent crops: 11.53% other: 60.36% (2005)
Heard Island and McDonald Islands arable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% other: 100% (2005)
Holy See (Vatican City) arable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% other: 100% (urban area) (2005)
Honduras arable land: 9.53% permanent crops: 3.21% other: 87.26% (2005)
Hong Kong arable land: 5.05% permanent crops: 1.01% other: 93.94% (2001)
Hungary arable land: 49.58% permanent crops: 2.06% other: 48.36% (2005)
Iceland arable land: 0.07% permanent crops: 0% other: 99.93% (2005)
India arable land: 48.83% permanent crops: 2.8% other: 48.37% (2005)
Indonesia arable land: 11.03% permanent crops: 7.04% other: 81.93% (2005)
Iran arable land: 9.78% permanent crops: 1.29% other: 88.93% (2005)
Iraq arable land: 13.12% permanent crops: 0.61% other: 86.27% (2005)
Ireland arable land: 16.82% permanent crops: 0.03% other: 83.15% (2005)
Isle of Man arable land: 9% permanent crops: 0% other: 91% (permanent pastures, forests, mountain, and heathland) (2002)
Israel arable land: 15.45% permanent crops: 3.88% other: 80.67% (2005)
Italy arable land: 26.41% permanent crops: 9.09% other: 64.5% (2005)
Jamaica arable land: 15.83% permanent crops: 10.01% other: 74.16% (2005)
Jan Mayen arable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% other: 100% (2005)
Japan arable land: 11.64% permanent crops: 0.9% other: 87.46% (2005)
Jersey arable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% other: 100% (2005)
Jordan arable land: 3.32% permanent crops: 1.18% other: 95.5% (2005)
Kazakhstan arable land: 8.28% permanent crops: 0.05% other: 91.67% (2005)
Kenya arable land: 8.01% permanent crops: 0.97% other: 91.02% (2005)
Kiribati arable land: 2.74% permanent crops: 47.95% other: 49.31% (2005)
Korea, North arable land: 22.4% permanent crops: 1.66% other: 75.94% (2005)
Korea, South arable land: 16.58% permanent crops: 2.01% other: 81.41% (2005)
Kuwait arable land: 0.84% permanent crops: 0.17% other: 98.99% (2005)
Kyrgyzstan arable land: 6.55% permanent crops: 0.28% other: 93.17% note: Kyrgyzstan has the world's largest natural-growth walnut forest (2005)
Laos arable land: 4.01% permanent crops: 0.34% other: 95.65% (2005)
Latvia arable land: 28.19% permanent crops: 0.45% other: 71.36% (2005)
Lebanon arable land: 16.35% permanent crops: 13.75% other: 69.9% (2005)
Lesotho arable land: 10.87% permanent crops: 0.13% other: 89% (2005)
Liberia arable land: 3.43% permanent crops: 1.98% other: 94.59% (2005)
Libya arable land: 1.03% permanent crops: 0.19% other: 98.78% (2005)
Liechtenstein arable land: 25% permanent crops: 0% other: 75% (2005)
Lithuania arable land: 44.81% permanent crops: 0.9% other: 54.29% (2005)
Luxembourg arable land: 27.42% permanent crops: 0.69% other: 71.89% (includes Belgium) (2005)
Macau arable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% other: 100% (2005)
Macedonia arable land: 22.01% permanent crops: 1.79% other: 76.2% (2005)
Madagascar arable land: 5.03% permanent crops: 1.02% other: 93.95% (2005)
Malawi arable land: 20.68% permanent crops: 1.18% other: 78.14% (2005)
Malaysia arable land: 5.46% permanent crops: 17.54% other: 77% (2005)
Maldives arable land: 13.33% permanent crops: 30% other: 56.67% (2005)
Mali arable land: 3.76% permanent crops: 0.03% other: 96.21% (2005)
Malta arable land: 31.25% permanent crops: 3.13% other: 65.62% (2005)
Marshall Islands arable land: 11.11% permanent crops: 44.44% other: 44.45% (2005)
Mauritania arable land: 0.2% permanent crops: 0.01% other: 99.79% (2005)
Mauritius arable land: 49.02% permanent crops: 2.94% other: 48.04% (2005)
Mayotte arable land: NA% permanent crops: NA% other: NA%
Mexico arable land: 12.66% permanent crops: 1.28% other: 86.06% (2005)
Micronesia, Federated States of arable land: 5.71% permanent crops: 45.71% other: 48.58% (2005)
Moldova arable land: 54.52% permanent crops: 8.81% other: 36.67% (2005)
Monaco arable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% other: 100% (urban area) (2005)
Mongolia arable land: 0.76% permanent crops: 0% other: 99.24% (2005)
Montenegro arable land: 13.7% permanent crops: 1% other: 85.3%
Montserrat arable land: 20% permanent crops: 0% other: 80% (2005)
Morocco arable land: 19% permanent crops: 2% other: 79% (2005)
Mozambique arable land: 5.43% permanent crops: 0.29% other: 94.28% (2005)
Namibia arable land: 0.99% permanent crops: 0.01% other: 99% (2005)
Nauru arable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% other: 100% (2005)
Navassa Island arable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% other: 100% (2005)
Nepal arable land: 16.07% permanent crops: 0.85% other: 83.08% (2005)
Netherlands arable land: 21.96% permanent crops: 0.77% other: 77.27% (2005)
Netherlands Antilles arable land: 10% permanent crops: 0% other: 90% (2005)
New Caledonia arable land: 0.32% permanent crops: 0.22% other: 99.46% (2005)
New Zealand arable land: 5.54% permanent crops: 6.92% other: 87.54% (2005)
Nicaragua arable land: 14.81% permanent crops: 1.82% other: 83.37% (2005)
Niger arable land: 11.43% permanent crops: 0.01% other: 88.56% (2005)
Nigeria arable land: 33.02% permanent crops: 3.14% other: 63.84% (2005)
Niue arable land: 11.54% permanent crops: 15.38% other: 73.08% (2005)
Norfolk Island arable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% other: 100% (2005)
Northern Mariana Islands arable land: 13.04% permanent crops: 4.35% other: 82.61% (2005)
Norway arable land: 2.7% permanent crops: 0% other: 97.3% (2005)
Oman arable land: 0.12% permanent crops: 0.14% other: 99.74% (2005)
Pakistan arable land: 24.44% permanent crops: 0.84% other: 74.72% (2005)
Palau arable land: 8.7% permanent crops: 4.35% other: 86.95% (2005)
Panama arable land: 7.26% permanent crops: 1.95% other: 90.79% (2005)
Papua New Guinea arable land: 0.49% permanent crops: 1.4% other: 98.11% (2005)
Paracel Islands arable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% other: 100% (2005)
Paraguay arable land: 7.47% permanent crops: 0.24% other: 92.29% (2005)
Peru arable land: 2.88% permanent crops: 0.47% other: 96.65% (2005)
Philippines arable land: 19% permanent crops: 16.67% other: 64.33% (2005)
Pitcairn Islands arable land: NA permanent crops: NA other: NA
Poland arable land: 40.25% permanent crops: 1% other: 58.75% (2005)
Portugal arable land: 17.29% permanent crops: 7.84% other: 74.87% (2005)
Puerto Rico arable land: 3.69% permanent crops: 5.59% other: 90.72% (2005)
Qatar arable land: 1.64% permanent crops: 0.27% other: 98.09% (2005)
Romania arable land: 39.49% permanent crops: 1.92% other: 58.59% (2005)
Russia arable land: 7.17% permanent crops: 0.11% other: 92.72% (2005)
Rwanda arable land: 45.56% permanent crops: 10.25% other: 44.19% (2005)
Saint Helena arable land: 12.9% permanent crops: 0% other: 87.1% (2005)
Saint Kitts and Nevis arable land: 19.44% permanent crops: 2.78% other: 77.78% (2005)
Saint Lucia arable land: 6.45% permanent crops: 22.58% other: 70.97% (2005)
Saint Pierre and Miquelon arable land: 12.5% permanent crops: 0% other: 87.5% (2005)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines arable land: 17.95% permanent crops: 17.95% other: 64.1% (2005)
Samoa arable land: 21.13% permanent crops: 24.3% other: 54.57% (2005)
San Marino arable land: 16.67% permanent crops: 0% other: 83.33% (2005)
Sao Tome and Principe arable land: 8.33% permanent crops: 48.96% other: 42.71% (2005)
Saudi Arabia arable land: 1.67% permanent crops: 0.09% other: 98.24% (2005)
Senegal arable land: 12.51% permanent crops: 0.24% other: 87.25% (2005)
Serbia arable land: NA permanent crops: NA other: NA
Seychelles arable land: 2.17% permanent crops: 13.04% other: 84.79% (2005)
Sierra Leone arable land: 7.95% permanent crops: 1.05% other: 91% (2005)
Singapore arable land: 1.47% permanent crops: 1.47% other: 97.06% (2005)
Slovakia arable land: 29.23% permanent crops: 2.67% other: 68.1% (2005)
Slovenia arable land: 8.53% permanent crops: 1.43% other: 90.04% (2005)
Solomon Islands arable land: 0.62% permanent crops: 2.04% other: 97.34% (2005)
Somalia arable land: 1.64% permanent crops: 0.04% other: 98.32% (2005)
South Africa arable land: 12.1% permanent crops: 0.79% other: 87.11% (2005)
South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands arable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% other: 100% (largely covered by permanent ice and snow with some sparse vegetation consisting of grass, moss, and lichen) (2005)
Spain arable land: 27.18% permanent crops: 9.85% other: 62.97% (2005)
Spratly Islands arable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% other: 100% (2005)
Sri Lanka arable land: 13.96% permanent crops: 15.24% other: 70.8% (2005)
Sudan arable land: 6.78% permanent crops: 0.17% other: 93.05% (2005)
Suriname arable land: 0.36% permanent crops: 0.06% other: 99.58% (2005)
Svalbard arable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% other: 100% (no trees; the only bushes are crowberry and cloudberry) (2005)
Swaziland arable land: 10.25% permanent crops: 0.81% other: 88.94% (2005)
Sweden arable land: 5.93% permanent crops: 0.01% other: 94.06% (2005)
Switzerland arable land: 9.91% permanent crops: 0.58% other: 89.51% (2005)
Syria arable land: 24.8% permanent crops: 4.47% other: 70.73% (2005)
Taiwan arable land: 24% permanent crops: 1% other: 75% (2001)
Tajikistan arable land: 6.52% permanent crops: 0.89% other: 92.59% (2005)
Tanzania arable land: 4.23% permanent crops: 1.16% other: 94.61% (2005)
Thailand arable land: 27.54% permanent crops: 6.93% other: 65.53% (2005)
Timor-Leste arable land: 8.2% permanent crops: 4.57% other: 87.23% (2005)
Togo arable land: 44.2% permanent crops: 2.11% other: 53.69% (2005)
Tokelau arable land: 0% (soil is thin and infertile) permanent crops: 0% other: 100% (2005)
Tonga arable land: 20% permanent crops: 14.67% other: 65.33% (2005)
Trinidad and Tobago arable land: 14.62% permanent crops: 9.16% other: 76.22% (2005)
Tunisia arable land: 17.05% permanent crops: 13.08% other: 69.87% (2005)
Turkey arable land: 29.81% permanent crops: 3.39% other: 66.8% (2005)
Turkmenistan arable land: 4.51% permanent crops: 0.14% other: 95.35% (2005)
Turks and Caicos Islands arable land: 2.33% permanent crops: 0% other: 97.67% (2005)
Tuvalu arable land: 0% permanent crops: 66.67% other: 33.33% (2005)
Uganda arable land: 21.57% permanent crops: 8.92% other: 69.51% (2005)
Ukraine arable land: 53.8% permanent crops: 1.5% other: 44.7% (2005)
United Arab Emirates arable land: 0.77% permanent crops: 2.27% other: 96.96% (2005)
United Kingdom arable land: 23.23% permanent crops: 0.2% other: 76.57% (2005)
United States arable land: 18.01% permanent crops: 0.21% other: 81.78% (2005)
United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges arable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% other: 100% (2008)
Uruguay arable land: 7.77% permanent crops: 0.24% other: 91.99% (2005)
Uzbekistan arable land: 10.51% permanent crops: 0.76% other: 88.73% (2005)
Vanuatu arable land: 1.64% permanent crops: 6.97% other: 91.39% (2005)
Venezuela arable land: 2.85% permanent crops: 0.88% other: 96.27% (2005)
Vietnam arable land: 20.14% permanent crops: 6.93% other: 72.93% (2005)
Virgin Islands arable land: 5.71% permanent crops: 2.86% other: 91.43% (2005)
Wake Island arable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% other: 100% (2005)
Wallis and Futuna arable land: 7.14% permanent crops: 35.71% other: 57.15% (2005)
West Bank arable land: 16.9% permanent crops: 18.97% other: 64.13% (2001)
Western Sahara arable land: 0.02% permanent crops: 0% other: 99.98% (2005)
World arable land: 10.57% permanent crops: 1.04% other: 88.38% (2005)
Yemen arable land: 2.91% permanent crops: 0.25% other: 96.84% (2005)
Zambia arable land: 6.99% permanent crops: 0.04% other: 92.97% (2005)
Zimbabwe arable land: 8.24% permanent crops: 0.33% other: 91.43% (2005)
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Field Listing :: Languages
This entry provides a rank ordering of languages starting with the largest and sometimes includes the percent of total population speaking that language. Country
Languages(%)
Afghanistan Afghan Persian or Dari (official) 50%, Pashto (official) 35%, Turkic languages (primarily Uzbek and Turkmen) 11%, 30 minor languages (primarily Balochi and Pashai) 4%, much bilingualism
Akrotiri English, Greek
Albania Albanian (official - derived from Tosk dialect), Greek, Vlach, Romani, Slavic dialects
Algeria Arabic (official), French, Berber dialects
American Samoa Samoan 90.6% (closely related to Hawaiian and other Polynesian languages), English 2.9%, Tongan 2.4%, other Pacific islander 2.1%, other 2% note: most people are bilingual (2000 census)
Andorra Catalan (official), French, Castilian, Portuguese
Angola Portuguese (official), Bantu and other African languages
Anguilla English (official)
Antigua and Barbuda English (official), local dialects
Argentina Spanish (official), Italian, English, German, French
Armenia Armenian 97.7%, Yezidi 1%, Russian 0.9%, other 0.4% (2001 census)
Aruba Papiamento (a Spanish-Portuguese-Dutch-English dialect) 66.3%, Spanish 12.6%, English (widely spoken) 7.7%, Dutch (official) 5.8%, other 2.2%, unspecified or unknown 5.3% (2000 census)
Australia English 78.5%, Chinese 2.5%, Italian 1.6%, Greek 1.3%, Arabic 1.2%, Vietnamese 1%, other 8.2%, unspecified 5.7% (2006 Census)
Austria German (official nationwide) 88.6%, Turkish 2.3%, Serbian 2.2%, Croatian (official in Burgenland) 1.6%, other (includes Slovene, official in Carinthia, and Hungarian, official in Burgenland) 5.3% (2001 census)
Azerbaijan Azerbaijani (Azeri) 90.3%, Lezgi 2.2%, Russian 1.8%, Armenian 1.5%, other 3.3%, unspecified 1% (1999 census)
Bahamas, The English (official), Creole (among Haitian immigrants)
Bahrain Arabic, English, Farsi, Urdu
Bangladesh Bangla (official, also known as Bengali), English
Barbados English
Belarus Belarusian, Russian, other
Belgium Dutch (official) 60%, French (official) 40%, German (official) less than 1%, legally bilingual (Dutch and French)
Belize Spanish 46%, Creole 32.9%, Mayan dialects 8.9%, English 3.9% (official), Garifuna 3.4% (Carib), German 3.3%, other 1.4%, unknown 0.2% (2000 census)
Benin French (official), Fon and Yoruba (most common vernaculars in south), tribal languages (at least six major ones in north)
Bermuda English (official), Portuguese
Bhutan Dzongkha (official), Bhotes speak various Tibetan dialects, Nepalese speak various Nepalese dialects
Bolivia Spanish 60.7% (official), Quechua 21.2% (official), Aymara 14.6% (official), foreign languages 2.4%, other 1.2% (2001 census)
Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian
Botswana Setswana 78.2%, Kalanga 7.9%, Sekgalagadi 2.8%, English 2.1% (official), other 8.6%, unspecified 0.4% (2001 census)
Brazil Portuguese (official and most widely spoken language); note - less common languages include Spanish (border areas and schools), German, Italian, Japanese, English, and a large number of minor Amerindian languages
British Virgin Islands English (official)
Brunei Malay (official), English, Chinese
Bulgaria Bulgarian 84.5%, Turkish 9.6%, Roma 4.1%, other and unspecified 1.8% (2001 census)
Burkina Faso French (official), native African languages belonging to Sudanic family spoken by 90% of the population
Burma Burmese, minority ethnic groups have their own languages
Burundi Kirundi (official), French (official), Swahili (along Lake Tanganyika and in the Bujumbura area)
Cambodia Khmer (official) 95%, French, English
Cameroon 24 major African language groups, English (official), French (official)
Canada English (official) 58.8%, French (official) 21.6%, other 19.6% (2006 Census)
Cape Verde Portuguese, Crioulo (a blend of Portuguese and West African words)
Cayman Islands English 95%, Spanish 3.2%, other 1.8% (1999 census)
Central African Republic French (official), Sangho (lingua franca and national language), tribal languages
Chad French (official), Arabic (official), Sara (in south), more than 120 different languages and dialects
Chile Spanish (official), Mapudungun, German, English
China Standard Chinese or Mandarin (Putonghua, based on the Beijing dialect), Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghainese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, minority languages (see Ethnic groups entry)
Christmas Island English (official), Chinese, Malay
Cocos (Keeling) Islands Malay (Cocos dialect), English
Colombia Spanish
Comoros Arabic (official), French (official), Shikomoro (a blend of Swahili and Arabic)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the French (official), Lingala (a lingua franca trade language), Kingwana (a dialect of Kiswahili or Swahili), Kikongo, Tshiluba
Congo, Republic of the French (official), Lingala and Monokutuba (lingua franca trade languages), many local languages and dialects (of which Kikongo is the most widespread)
Cook Islands English (official), Maori
Costa Rica Spanish (official), English
Cote d'Ivoire French (official), 60 native dialects with Dioula the most widely spoken
Croatia Croatian 96.1%, Serbian 1%, other and undesignated 2.9% (including Italian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and German) (2001 census)
Cuba Spanish
Cyprus Greek, Turkish, English
Czech Republic Czech 94.9%, Slovak 2%, other 2.3%, unidentified 0.8% (2001 census)
Denmark Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), German (small minority) note: English is the predominant second language
Dhekelia English, Greek
Djibouti French (official), Arabic (official), Somali, Afar
Dominica English (official), French patois
Dominican Republic Spanish
Ecuador Spanish (official), Amerindian languages (especially Quechua)
Egypt Arabic (official), English and French widely understood by educated classes
El Salvador Spanish, Nahua (among some Amerindians)
Equatorial Guinea Spanish 67.6% (official), other 32.4% (includes French (official), Fang, Bubi) (1994 census)
Eritrea Afar, Arabic, Tigre and Kunama, Tigrinya, other Cushitic languages
Estonia Estonian (official) 67.3%, Russian 29.7%, other 2.3%, unknown 0.7% (2000 census)
Ethiopia Amarigna 32.7%, Oromigna 31.6%, Tigrigna 6.1%, Somaligna 6%, Guaragigna 3.5%, Sidamigna 3.5%, Hadiyigna 1.7%, other 14.8%, English (major foreign language taught in schools) (1994 census)
European Union Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish note: only official languages are listed; German, the major language of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, is the most widely spoken mother tongue - over 19% of the EU population; English is the most widely spoken language - about 49% of the EU population is conversant with it (2007)
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) English
Faroe Islands Faroese (derived from Old Norse), Danish
Fiji English (official), Fijian (official), Hindustani
Finland Finnish 91.2% (official), Swedish 5.5% (official), other 3.3% (small Sami- and Russian-speaking minorities) (2007)
France French 100%, rapidly declining regional dialects and languages (Provencal, Breton, Alsatian, Corsican, Catalan, Basque, Flemish) overseas departments: French, Creole patois
French Polynesia French 61.1% (official), Polynesian 31.4% (official), Asian languages 1.2%, other 0.3%, unspecified 6% (2002 census)
Gabon French (official), Fang, Myene, Nzebi, Bapounou/Eschira, Bandjabi
Gambia, The English (official), Mandinka, Wolof, Fula, other indigenous vernaculars
Gaza Strip Arabic, Hebrew (spoken by many Palestinians), English (widely understood)