Can you name the countries where Portuguese is an official language?

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Portuguese Speaking Countries Quiz

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Created Sep 27, 2009 in Language
Featured Jan 3, 2013
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	Eideticmemory123:	Jan 3rd, 2013 at 04:38 GMT		56 points
	Portugal. Brazil. Right, time to start guessing!

	eab21:	Jan 3rd, 2013 at 04:48 GMT		1 point
	@Eideticmemory123: For me it was "Equatorial Guinea, Angola, Mozambique. Hmmm...what am I forgetting....."

Zak6009:

Jan 3rd, 2013 at 05:40 GMT

11 points

I honestly only missed Equatorial Guinea because I was under the impression it was Spanish-speaking. Knew the other little ones.

	ArtFever:	Jan 3rd, 2013 at 07:30 GMT		13 points
	Equatorial Guinea actually has both Spanish, French and Portuguese as official languages. Thanks to Sporcle, you learn something new every day!

	WCRoentgen:	Jan 3rd, 2013 at 09:09 GMT		25 points
	Portuguese is an official language of Macau (along with Cantonese). Would that make China an acceptable answer?

	Skold:	Jan 3rd, 2013 at 09:42 GMT		18 points
	Maybe a bonus answer?

	timjim:	Jan 3rd, 2013 at 10:53 GMT		9 points
	Portugal really lost its empire. The country the language was named after and 4th in the population that speaks it?

	littlemermaid:	Jan 3rd, 2013 at 11:39 GMT		0 points
	At first I was confused that Brazil is higher up the list then Portugal, but then I realized, "Oh yeah... Brazil is bigger than Portugal..."

	rhysyboy:	Jan 3rd, 2013 at 13:12 GMT		1 point
	I knew that Mozambique and Cape Verde were Portuguese speaking, along with the obvious two, but to come up with 5 more from around the world was tough!

	Acid_Snow:	Jan 3rd, 2013 at 13:28 GMT		4 points
	Sao Tome gives itself away by the accent on the ao, and Angola and Mozambique are easily identifiable on maps of 1914 Africa (visual learning). The rest aren't as easy, and I still think of Equatorial Guinea as Hispanophone and Guinea-Bissau as Francophone.

	johnlk:	Jan 3rd, 2013 at 14:06 GMT		6 points
	Besides Macau, Portuguese is also an official language in the Indian territory of Daman and Diu. I'd think China and India ought to be bonus answers. Equatorial Guinea is tough, since Spanish is the main official language there.

	Ismitje:	Jan 3rd, 2013 at 15:10 GMT		2 points
	Those would be good bonus answers. Me, I am always bugged by using the English "and" in Sao Tome e Principe - we don't translate the rest of the name after all, so I wish we'd keep the Portuguese "e" in the formal name as well (or cleverly add a dash like Timor-Leste and Guinea-Bissau).

	balatjr:	Jan 3rd, 2013 at 16:50 GMT		0 points
	Ditto on India and Macau. Although only spoken in the former colonial areas, they are still listed as an official language (at least in Goa).

	cocky:	Jan 3rd, 2013 at 19:38 GMT		12 points
	@timjim...Have you seen the English empire lately?

	apchilds:	Jan 3rd, 2013 at 20:42 GMT		0 points
	The source cited by the quiz author does not indicate that Portuguese is an official language of Equatorial Guinea. Only Spanish and French are listed. (Other sources do corroborate that Portuguese is also an official language, so I'm not challenging the answer; I'm just pointing out that the source doesn't support that answer.)

	iglew:	Jan 3rd, 2013 at 20:42 GMT		4 points
	I too thought of Equatorial Guinea as Spanish-speaking. When I went to Wikipedia to find out what part of EqG's heritage is Portuguese, I learned that adoption of Portuguese as a national language is a very recent development. (I also learned there's such a think as "Equatoguinean Spanish"!)

	Josephklimp:	Jan 3rd, 2013 at 21:25 GMT		2 points
	timjim: English, Spanish, French (DRC)... They all lost their empires

	thesmallcheese:	Jan 3rd, 2013 at 21:45 GMT		1 point
	2 in 5 people who took this quiz only got two answers, which makes me feel a little better about myself.

	Statto2:	Jan 3rd, 2013 at 22:40 GMT		-2 points
	@cocky - I know what you meamn but I am struggling to think of 3 countries with a larger population than the UK that have English as an official language: India, USA ?

	snickerdoodle27:	Jan 4th, 2013 at 01:26 GMT		0 points
	Portugal, Brazil... ummmm

	ArtFever:	Jan 4th, 2013 at 03:29 GMT		8 points
	Statto2: Pakistan, Nigeria and the Philippines (though the last one is due to the US, not the UK).

	redhawk87:	Jan 4th, 2013 at 12:42 GMT		0 points
	Got the two easy ones and then was 90% sure on sao tome and cape verde... The rest was just guessing western coast african countries starting from the congos and going out. Only missed timor-leste... I did not know portugal made it all the way over there! Learned something new.

	AriesLA:	Jan 4th, 2013 at 20:46 GMT		-2 points
	Macau and the others are not countries. So the quiz is fine as it is. It didn't say "territories that speak portuguese".

	Emerald_Fusion:	Feb 3rd, 2013 at 14:01 GMT		0 points
	Territories are part of countries though. So China should be included.

	Amran:	Feb 20th, 2013 at 08:01 GMT		0 points
	Missed Cape Verde,Equatorial Guinea and Guinea-Bissau

	ForYourBroats:	Mar 11th, 2013 at 01:51 GMT		1 point
	Equatorial Guinea, site of the annual World Language Luau.

	Oh_My_Bishkek:	Apr 23rd, 2013 at 15:00 GMT		1 point
	Missed Equatorial Guinea which is a bit annoying as I guessed Gabon and Cameroon...