German Speaking Minorities Without Official Status
- High numbers of German speaking minorities, but no official recognition:
- Poland (particularly in Opole Voivodeship)
- France (Alsace and Lorraine)
- Kazakhstan
- Russia
- German speaking minorities, but no official status:
- Estonia
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Croatia
- Slovakia
- Ukraine
- Serbia
- Namibia (former German colony, outside Europe)
Owing to tourism and second-home colonies some areas around the Mediterranean Sea (like the Balearic Islands) have small German-speaking communities.
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