ENGLISH IN THE WORLD
CENTRAL AMERICA
Country or Territory
Capital
Languages
Anguilla
The Valley
English
Antigua and Barbuda
Saint John’s
English
The Bahamas
Nassau
English
Barbados
Bridgetown
English
Belize
Belmopan
English
Bermuda
Hamilton
English
Cayman Islands
George Town
English
Dominica
Roseau
English
Grenada
St. Georges
English and French patois
Jamaica
Kingston
English, Creole
London
English
San Juan
Spanish, English
Montserrat
Puerto Rico
Saint Lucia
Castries
English
St. Kitts and Nevis
Basseterre
English
St. Vincent and Grenadines
Kingstown
English
Trinidad and Tobago
Port of Spain
English, Hindi, French,Spanish, Chinese
Turks and Caicos Islands
Cockburn Town
English
British Virgin Islands
British Road
Town English
Virgin Islands
US Charlotte Amalie
English, Spanish and Creole
SOUTH AMERICA
Country Guyana
Falkland Islands
Capital
Languages
Georgetown
English, Amerindian dialects, Creole, Hindi, Urdu
Stanley
English
NORTH AMERICA
United Washington, English States DC
History of North America
English, Canada Ottawa French
EUROPE
United Kingdom
England
London
English
The English rose
Scotland English, Edinburgh Scottish Gaelic The Scottish thistle
Wales
The Republic of Ireland (Eire)
Dublin
English, Gaelic
The Irish shamrock
Cardiff
English, Welsh
Belfast
English, Gaelic
The Welsh leek and daffodil
Northern Ireland (Ulster)
The Irish shamrock
Malta
Valletta
English Maltese
English,Spanish,
Gibraltar Gibraltar Italian, Russian Portuguese
AFRICA
Country
Capital
Language
Botswana
Gaborone
English, Setswana
Cameroon
Yaonde
English, French + 24 major African language groups
The Gambia
Banjul
English, Mandinka, Wolof, Fula, other indigenous vernaculars
Ghana
Accra
English, African languages (including Akan, Moshi-Dagomba, Ewe, and Ga)
Kenya
Nairobi
English , Kiswahili , numerous indigenous languages
Lesotho
Maseru
English, Sesotho (southern Sotho),, Zulu, Xhosa
Monrovia
English, some 20 ethnic group languages, of which a few can be written and are used in correspondence
Malawi
Lilongwe
English,Chichewa
Mauritius
Port Louis
English, Creole, French, Hindi, Urdu, Hakka, Bojpoori
Namibia
Windhoek
English, Afrikaans, German ,indigenous languages: Oshivambo, Herero, Nama
Nigeria
Abuja
English, Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo (Ibo), Fulani
Rwanda
Kigali
Kinyarwanda, French, English
St Helena
Jamestown
English
Liberia
Seychelles
Victoria
English, French, Creole
Sierra Leone
Freetown
English, Mende, Temne , Krio (Englishbased Creole)
Pretoria
11 official languages, including Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu
Swaziland
Mbabane, Lobamba is the royal and legislative capital
English, Siswati
Tanzania
Dar es Salaam
Kiswahili or Swahili, English
Kampala
English, Ganda or Luganda ,other NigerCongo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili, Arabic
Lusaka
English, major vernaculars - Bemba, Kaonda, Lozi, Lunda, Luvale, Nyanja, Tonga, and about 70 other indigenous languages
Harare
English, Shona, Sindebele
South Africa
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Madagascar
Antananarivo
English(since 2007), French and Malagasy
ASIA
Country Bahrain Bangladesh Brunei
Capital
Language
Manama
Arabic, (also English, Persian(Farsi), Urdu)
Dhaka
Bengali(Bangla), English
Bandar Seri Begawan
Malay, English, and Chinese
India
Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Malaysia Maldives Myanmar (Burma) Pakistan
Philippines
Singapore
Sri Lanka
Thailand United Arab Emirates
New Delhi
English, Hindi, Assamese, Bengali(Bangla), Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Malayalam,Konkani, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu, and others (Indo-European):Hindustani, Bihari, Rajasthani, Bhili, (Dravidian):Gondi, Kurukh, Oraon, Kui, Tulu, (Munda):Santali, Ho, Korku, Savara(Sora), Bodo, Garo, Meithei, Lushei, and Khasi, and Burushaski
Amman
Arabic, (also English among upper-class)
Kuwait
Arabic (also English)
Beirut
Arabic, French, Armenian, Assyrian, (also English)
Kuala Lumpur
Malay, Chinese, Tamil, and many tribal languages, (also English)
Male
Dhivehi(Maldivian), (also English in Government)
Rangoon
Burmese(Birmano), Karen, Shan, Mon, Chin, Kachin(Chingpaw), Palaung, Wa(Kawa), (also English)
Islamabad
Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashtu, Siraiki, Baluchi, Brahui, Hindko, Burushaski, English, and others
Manila
Pilipino(Tagalog), English, Ilocano, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Samaran, Bikol, Pampangan, Pangasinan, Igorot, Maranao
Singapore
Chinese, Malay, Tamil and English
Colombo (Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte- legislative capital)
Sinhala(Sinhalese), Tamil, (also English in Gov't)
Bangkok
Thai, Chinese, and Malay, Mon, Khmer, Karen, Miao(Meo), (also English used among the elite)
Abu Dhabi
Arabic, Persian(Farsi), Indian languages, and English
AUSTRALASIA
Country Australia Fiji Kiribati Marshall Islands Micronesia Nauru New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu
Capital
Language
Canberra
English
Suva
English, Fijian, Hindi
Tarawa
English, I-Kiribati
Majuro
English, Marshallese
Palikir
English
government offices in Yaren District
Nauruan, English
Wellington
English, Maori
Koror
English, Palauan
Port Moresby
English, Pidgin English, Motu, local dialects
Honiara
English, Pidgin English, Melenesian and Polynesian languages
Nuku'alofa
English, Tongan
Funafuti
English, Tuvaluan
Vanuatu Western Samoa
Port-Vila
English and French, Bislama, local dialects
Apia
Samoan, English