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The following countries have German as an official language:

Germany

Belgium

Luxembourg

Switzerland

Liechtenstein

Austria

Italy (official in South Tyrol)

European Union**

German is also a recognized minority language in the following countries:

Denmark

Poland

Czech Republic

Slovakia

Hungary

Vatican City

Italy

Romania

Russia

Kazakhstan

Brazil

Namibia [German was official, but demoted in 1990]

(Bolded nations are European ones)

** - the European Union is not a sovereign nation, but an immensely powerful organization engulfing most of Europe.

Several other European countries have large speaking German populations, but do not recognized German as a minority language in the country. Such countries include Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bulgaria, France, and the United Kingdom.

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