Francophonie in Africa

More than half of all French-speaking people live in Africa. The map shows the African countries where the French language is spoken. These include francophone countries in which French is an official language (dark blue): Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia (Maghreb), Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, Niger, Chad, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Djibouti, Madagascar, Comoros, Mayotte, Réunion, Mauritius, Seychelles, Îles Éparses. There are also other countries (light blue) such as Western Sahara, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe and Egypt, which belong to Francophone Africa. Other countries in which French is not an official language have nevertheless joined the Organization internationale de la Francophonie (International Francophone Organization) (green): Guinea-Bissau, Ghana, and Mozambique.

Frankophone Africa, digital map, 2007, creator: CrazyPhunk; source: Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Francophone_Africa.svg,  Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en.