Portuguese-Speaking Countries Quiz

Which countries count?

A country counts when the language is an official national language: named in its constitution or laws (de jure), or, where the law names none, the language its national government works in (de facto). A language that is widely spoken but not official does not count, nor does one that is official only in a region. We use the same 197 countries as our other quizzes: the 193 UN members, Vatican City, Palestine, Kosovo and Taiwan. Territories such as Puerto Rico are grey on the map.

Portuguese has about 260 million speakers, about four in five of them in Brazil.

Borderline cases

• Equatorial Guinea (counted): Portuguese was added as an official language in 2010, alongside Spanish and French, although few people speak it.
• Timor-Leste (counted): Portuguese became official again at independence in 2002, alongside Tetum.
• Macau (counted): Portuguese is official with Chinese, but Macau is part of China, so it does not count as a country.
• Uruguay (not counted): A mix of Spanish and Portuguese is spoken near the border with Brazil, but Spanish is the official language.

All 9 countries where Portuguese is official

Europe (1): Portugal

Africa (6): Angola, Cabo Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Sao Tome and Principe

Asia (1): Timor-Leste

South America (1): Brazil

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