If the French is your mother tongue, or simply if you want to practice your French, here is a list of destinations that will help you organize your trip.
Understand
Country
Countries where French is the official language
Map of the world where French is spoken
Dark blue : mother tongue
Blue : administrative language
Light blue : important language and / or language of culture
Green : francophone minorities
Dark blue : mother tongue
Blue : administrative language
Light blue : important language and / or language of culture
Green : francophone minorities
You should know that the fact that French is the official language of a country does not necessarily mean that it is the national language of the inhabitants of the country.
- Belgium (Used in Wallonia and to Brussels mainly, but French is an official national language)
- Benign
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Canada (Provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick mainly, but French is the official language throughout the country)
- Central African Republic
- Comoros
- Republic of Congo
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Ivory Coast
- Djibouti
- France
- Gabon
- Guinea
- Equatorial Guinea
- Haiti
- India (Pondicherry, a territory of the former Indian Union)
- Italy (Aosta Valley, a bilingual region)
- Luxembourg
- Madagascar
- Mali
- Monaco
- Niger
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Swiss
- Chad
- Togo
- Vanuatu
Countries where French is an important language
In these countries French is not an official language but many people speak French there, especially because of the history.
- Algeria
- Andorra
- Cambodia
- United States (Louisiana, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont)
- Mauritius
- Laos
- Lebanon
- Mauritania
- Morocco
- Moldova
- Romania
- Tunisia
- Vietnam
