French facts

French is spoken by over 270 million people world wide. 80 million as the first language and 190 million as the second language. Most french speakers live in France. There are a total of 29 countries that use french as their official language. A list of these countries and an outline map of the world show where these countries are situated. As a native language, French is the 15th most widely used language and 7th when you include all fluent french speakers. There are also cities in major countries like usa have large native speaking communities and this is the same situation for many other countries around the world.