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From 1931 till 1947 this Headquarters Do know that: organization was called the , British Commonwealth of , UK has the longest coastline Nations (Британское in the world? Содружество наций) and Language included the English is the most highly which were formerly parts developed in the of the British . In Membership Commonwealth? 1947 it became the 53 Sovereign States

Commonwealth of Half of the people in the The Members of the British Nations (Содружество Leaders: Commonwealth lives in ? Commonwealth наций). At present, the

Commonwealth is an The British is the The people of New association of 53 Guinea speak over 700 different states, languages? consulting and co-operating The -General is in the common interests the Head of the All the countries of the of their peoples and in the Commonwealth share English as promotion of a common language? international Establishment understanding and world Balfour Declaration One-third of the world's young peace. The 18 1926; people live in the Commonwealth's 2 billion Statute of Commonwealth? citizens, about 30 per cent 11 1931; of the world's population, India was called 'the Jewel in the have different faiths, races, 28 ' due to its highly profitable cultures and traditions. exports? 17 sovereign countries of Area the Commonwealth 31,462,574 km² Every four years the (Canada, , New Population Commonwealth's members Zealand and the United 1,921,974,000 celebrate the Commonwealth Kingdom among them) Density Games, the world's second- recognize the British 61.09/km² largest multi- event after The Flag of the Commonwealth Monarch as the head of the ? their states. Website Thecommonwealth.org ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD

SOVEREIGN STATES

Country Population Continent Population

Nigeria 128,771,988 America 69,029 Africa 44,344,136 and America 68,722 Africa 36,992,490 and America 38,958 Africa 33,829,590 India 1,103,600,000 Africa 27,269,482 Asia 162,419,946 Africa 21,029,853 Asia 87,857,473 Africa 19,280,000 Singapore Asia 4,425,720 Africa 16,380,005 279,457 Africa 12,746,990 60,441,457 Africa 12,158,924 of Europe 4,130,700 Africa 11,261,795 Europe 398,534 Africa 8,440,820 300,007,997 Africa 6,017,643 Canada North America 32,300,000 Africa 3,482,211 Australia 20,800,000 Africa 2,030,692 Papua Oceania 5,545,268 Africa 1,867,035 Oceania 4,108,561 Africa 1,640,115 Solomon Oceania 538,032 Africa 1,593,256 Oceania 205,754 Africa 1,230,602 Oceania 108,105 Swaziland Africa 1,173,900 Oceania 103,092 Africa 81,188 Oceania 59,071 America 1,088,644 Oceania 20,303 America 301,790 Oceania 13,528 America 279,254 Oceania 1,600 America 166,312 Oceania 1,400 and the America 117,534 Oceania 893,354 Grenadines America 89,502 2,731,832 South America 765,283

DEPENDENT ENTITIES

Entity Continent Population Entity Continent Population Asia 6,898,686 British America 22,643 America 3,912,054 Oceania 21,388 Turks and Caicos Oceania 108,708 America 20,556 Islands U.S. Virgin Islands America 108,708 America 13,254 Europe 88,200 America 9,341 Northern Mariana Oceania 80,801 Africa 7,460 Islands Europe 75,049 South America 2,967 America 65,365 Norfolk Oceania 1,828 Europe 65,228 Oceania 1,600 American Oceania 64,869 Africa 273 America 44,270 Islands Oceania 67 Europe 27,884

It’s interesting to know that:

The status of English as a country's In some countries English is Almost all of these Several of these nations, like These nations total 2.135 official language does not the dominant language, but it countries are current or India, Canada and the billion people and cover necessarily correlate with the number does not have an official former colonies or Philippines, use English as an 15,583,152 square miles. of English – speakers in this country. status. In Australia, English is dependencies of the UK or official language but not the India, for example, with a spoken by the vast majority of the United States (the latter only official language. population of 1.1 billion, has fewer the population and is the only also started as a British However, many people from than 200,000 native speakers of language used in colony). The notable the countries in this list (for English and approximately 100 institutions, yet Australia does exception is Madagascar, example ) do not million second-language English not have an official language. which is a former French speak English at all. speakers (who form less than 10% of This is the same in the U.S. colony with English its population). , on the other and the UK, although some speaking neighbours. hand, has a small percentage of states within the U.S. or second-language within the UK have speakers; however, more than 60% English as an official language. of its population speak Nigerian Pidgin English, which, although not a dialect of English, does contain many English words and possesses an English-like grammatical structure. THE MAP OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD

English as the first language

English as a second language