English-speaking World

The English-speaking world consists of those countries or regions that use the English language as a primary language to one degree or another. For more information, please see:

Lists:

  • List of countries by English-speaking population
  • List of countries where English is an official language

Articles:

  • Anglosphere
  • History of the English language
  • British Empire
  • Commonwealth of Nations
  • English in the Commonwealth of Nations
English-speaking world

Click on a coloured region to get related article:

  • Countries and territories where English is the national language or the native language of the majority.
Africa
  • Saint Helena
Americas
  • Anguilla
  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • The Bahamas
  • Barbados
  • Belize
  • Bermuda
  • British Virgin Islands
  • Canada
  • Cayman Islands
  • Dominica
  • Falkland Islands
  • Grenada
  • Guyana
  • Jamaica
  • Montserrat
  • Saba
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis
  • Saint Lucia
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  • Sint Eustatius
  • Sint Maarten
  • South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Turks and Caicos Islands
  • United States
  • United States Virgin Islands
Europe
  • Guernsey
  • Ireland
  • Isle of Man
  • Jersey
  • United Kingdom
Oceania
  • Australia
  • New Zealand
  • Norfolk Island
  • Countries and territories where English is an official language, but not the majority language.
Africa
  • Botswana
  • Cameroon
  • Ethiopia
  • Eritrea
  • The Gambia
  • Ghana
  • Kenya
  • Lesotho
  • Liberia
  • Malawi
  • Mauritius
  • Namibia
  • Nigeria
  • Rwanda
  • Sierra Leone
  • Somaliland
  • South Africa
  • South Sudan
  • Sudan
  • Swaziland
  • Tanzania
  • Uganda
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe
Americas
  • Puerto Rico
Asia
  • Christmas Island
  • Cocos (Keeling) Islands
  • Hong Kong
  • India
  • Malaysia
  • Pakistan
  • Philippines
  • Singapore
Europe
  • Gibraltar
  • Malta
Oceania
  • American Samoa
  • Cook Islands
  • Fiji
  • Guam
  • Kiribati
  • Marshall Islands
  • Micronesia
  • Nauru
  • Niue
  • Northern Mariana Islands
  • Palau
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Pitcairn Islands
  • Samoa
  • Solomon Islands
  • Tokelau
  • Tuvalu
  • Vanuatu
Language groups
  • Anglophone
  • Arabophone
  • Dutchophone
  • Finnophone
  • Francophone
  • Germanophone
  • Hispanophone
  • Italophone
  • Lusophone
  • Netherlandophone
  • Russophone
  • Sinophone
  • Turcophone
  • Ukrainophone

Famous quotes containing the word world:

    So may the outward shows be least themselves—
    The world is still deceived with ornament.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)