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Afrikaans is spoken mainly in the following countries:

Many South African immigrants abroad also use Afrikaans as their main language. Large South African immigrant communities are found in:

However, Afrikaans and Dutch are mutually intelligible languages. Therefore, the above lists may be extended to Dutch-speaking countries as well.

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