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People speak French on every continent of the world. However, the largest number of French speakers is in AFRICA, where dozens of countries have French as their official language.
Europe has many countries, with many different languages like, French, German, Dutch, English, Swedish, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Irish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Romanian and many, many others. So depending on what part of Europe you are, in will depend on what types of languages you will hear and how people will speak.
Approximately 274 million people speak French fluently worldwide.
120 million people in Europe
Over 100 million people speak French every day and another 100 million people speak French regularly, but perhaps not daily.
Most of Europe can speak in English but it is not their primary language. If you lived in the United States you would speak your birth language of English not Spanish or French or any of the Native American languages or other languages that exist in that nation. Germans speak German in Germany. French speak French in France. They can speak in English too because English speaking people do business with them and the tourists do too. In the US they do not get very many German or French people visiting so they don't learn those languages but they do learn Spanish since there are millions there who speak in Spanish.
Scotland is a country and cannot speak at all. However many Scottish people are able to speak French.
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There are three countries in Europe where French is an official language - France , Belgium (Wallonie) and Switzerland ( Cantons francophones). French is also spoken in parts of Italy near the French border, and many people across Europe who aren't native speakers use French.
German is the main language of about 90-95 million people in Europe.