Where do they speak Dutch?

Question

I would like to be able to state that I have travelled to all countries where there is a native community that understand and speaks Dutch. So far I have been in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Suriname, and the Netherlands Antilles.

Where do I need to go to complete my wish list of visiting all Dutch speaking nations?

score 6 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 05 '12 at 22:10

While the Wikipedia page @redct referred to which shows the distribution, I'd be careful - as some of those are not the Dutch spoken in the Netherlands (eg Afrikaans). I can speak some Afrikaans and as a result understand some Dutch, but it's not totally the same.

There's another wiki page which lists the 8 countries that officially speak Dutch, which doesn't have the detail of the previous page, but simpler to quickly parse ;).

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 05 '12 at 20:14

It depends how you define Dutch speaking—if there's a few expats hanging around that speak Dutch, you could probably include 100+ countries. However, Wikipedia has you covered for a list of countries where it's an official language, as well as major populations of Dutch speakers.

Where do they speak Dutch?

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