There are approximately 274 million French speakers worldwide, including both native speakers and those who have learned French as a second language. French is spoken in many countries as either an official or second language, with the majority of French speakers located in Africa.
No there are many other places in which people speak french. For example, Quebec. Many french speakers live in Canada and places outside of France.
French speakers
France has the most speakers of French, with over 77 million native speakers.
Africa is the continent with the highest number of French speakers due to its colonial history with France. French is spoken in many African countries, particularly in North and West Africa.
French speakers are often called Francophones.
Newfoundland and Labrador has speakers of English, French, German and Inuktitut. The 2011 Census shows there are only 655 German speakers and 595 Inuktitut speakers while there are 443,405 English and 46,885 French speakers.
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.
If you mean "How many people speak French?", then the answer was 77 million native speakers and 51 million non-native speakers as of 1999. If you mean "How many people live in France?", then the answer is 61,538,322 as of 2007.
tens of thousands people speak French in London because a lot of French people work there and London is now 2 hours by train from Paris.
About 22% of Canadians speak French as their primary language. Most of these French-speakers reside in Quebec.
100 million.. then probably around 200 million if you include non french native speakers