Portugal

Europe

Brazil

Latin America

São Tomé and Príncipe

None

Timor-Leste

Southeast Asia

Angola

Cabo Verde

Guinea-Bissau

Mozambique

Sub-Saharan Africa

A world map shows the countries where Portuguese is an official or de facto language. These countries are highlighted in green and include Brazil in South America, Angola, and Mozambique in Africa.

Countries where Portuguese is an official (or serves as a de facto) language

Countries

World

Ethnologue

Portuguese as Official or de facto Language

Bermuda (U.K.)

Caribbean

Greenland (Denmark)

St. Pierre and Miquelon (France)

Canada

United States

Mexico

North America

A map of North American and the Artic showing the locations of native cultural areas.

Native American cultural areas by geography

Native American Culture Areas

Artic is located at the top of Canada, the west coast of Greenland and in island areas in between. California fills most of the state as well as Baja California in Mexico. Eastern Woodlands, Northeast extends from Tennessee and Missouri in the south, the Great Lakes and southeastern Canada to the North, and the entire east coast down to North Carolina. Eastern Woodlands, Southeast includes very small pockets along the U.S. southeast coast. Great Basin includes much of Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, and Nevada, as well as eastern California and Oregon. Northwest coast includes island chains off Washington, coastal western Canada, and Alaska. Plains encompasses much of the center of the United States and Canada, extending from Edmonton to the north and San Antonio to the south. Plateau includes eastern Oregon and Washington, northern Idaho, and parts of southern Alberta and British Columbia. Southwest includes most of Arizona, New Mexico, southern Texas, and northern Mexico. Subarctic consists of most of northern Canada below the arctic circle.

World History Encyclopedia

Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)

Japan

South Korea

Macau S.A.R. (China)

China

North Korea

Taiwan

East Asia

Distribution of language families: Indo-European in North and South America (blue), Niger-Congo in Sub-Saharan Africa (purple), Afro-Asiatic in North Africa and Middle East (black), Sino-Tibetan in China (brown), and Altaic in Central Asia (orange).

The predominant language families of East Asia. Language families are groups of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language.

Portuguese as Official or de facto Language	Native American Culture Areas									Language Families
Value	Arctic	California	Eastern Woodlands, Northeast	Great Basin	Northwest Coast	Plains	Plateau	Southwest	Subarctic	Mongolian	Uigur and other Turkic languages	Tribal languages of eastern Taiwan	Japanese	Korean	Gan	Mandarin	Min (including Fujianese and Taiwanese)	Tibetan	Wu (including Shanghaiese)	Xiang	Yue (Cantonese)	Zhuang




			44.7%
	0.585%								51.1%
	12.9%	3.58%	9.59%	12.5%	0.334%	11.0%	2.15%	14.5%	33.5%
										3.96%	1.10%	26.7%	60.3%	57.5%	1.53%	56.9%	72.3%	18.5%	1.52%	2.03%	3.31%	1.42%