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Summary

Countries where English is an official or de facto official language (with the exception of Madagascar where it has only been official from 2007 to 2010).
Countries added by Ezeu based on wikipedia:List of countries where English is an official language (version: 16 March 2006)
Original map: BlankMap-World.png by Vardion
In the Canadian province of Quebec, French is the sole official language but it has a small English speaking population, see Charter of the French Language and related pages.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	21:45, 21 January 2016	1,425 × 625 (40 KB)	Maphobbyist	English was abolished as an official language in Gambia in 2014.
	00:27, 9 July 2011	1,425 × 625 (51 KB)	Maphobbyist	South Sudan has become independent on July 9, 2011. Sudan and South Sudan are shown with the new international border between them. The coloring stays the same as English has offical use in the new country as well.
	00:27, 9 July 2011	1,425 × 625 (51 KB)	Maphobbyist	South Sudan has become independent on July 9, 2011. Sudan and South Sudan are shown with the new international border between them. The coloring stays the same as English has offical use in the new country as well.
	21:47, 4 March 2011	1,425 × 625 (51 KB)	Maphobbyist	Added a more detailed and precise map. In the overwhelmingly Francophone Canadian province of Quebec, English is not an official nor a de-facto language at all.
	23:18, 11 February 2011	1,350 × 625 (78 KB)	Aaker
	10:03, 16 August 2007	1,350 × 625 (78 KB)	Aaker
	14:41, 10 April 2007	1,350 × 625 (78 KB)	Nightstallion
	02:27, 31 March 2006	1,350 × 625 (111 KB)	David Kernow~commonswiki
	15:24, 16 March 2006	1,350 × 625 (20 KB)	Ezeu
	15:21, 16 March 2006	1,350 × 625 (14 KB)	Ezeu