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Where is Hong Kong and Singapore?

United States

Since when is English the official language? —Preceding unsigned comment added by TMV943 (talk • contribs) 02:48, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

De facto. 129.15.131.185 (talk) 03:00, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Madagascar

Everybody interested in neutral and correct information should immediatelly remove Madagascar from this map, as they already dropped English last year from where it had been a third official language introduced in a more or less "sterile" way only since 2007.

As of the USA or GB, where it is has never been official on a federal level, I think it is correct to leave it the way it is, as many states in the US have defined it their/one of their official languages and it is used by the federal governments of both countries. But this implies to either remove Quebec where explicitly only French is official or put this province in light green to distinguish this very fact. 84.148.163.172 (talk) 08:54, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

I changed that this morning (see here, for background. also see the image history). Try looking at File:English-as-Official-Language_Map.png and refreshing your browser if it still shows green. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 01:16, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Somaliland

Someone helpfully brought up over at my user page that my edit summary concerning the Horn of Africa got cut off. Though I'd love to continue the conversation there (I'm too lazy to make use of my bloated watchlist), it would would be an unorthodox request, so I'll reproduce the relevant parts here.

Regarding Ethiopia and Eritrea: both the CIA World Factbook[1][2], and Ethnologue[3][4] claim it as such for both countries. I admit that I'm baffled myself, but I'm editing things to fit with the sources I have, while hoping someone can shed light on the matter. If someone can explain either 1. how English came to be official in these countries or 2. why two sources that Wikipedia heavily relies on for language information got it wrong, it would put the issue to rest.

As for Somaliland, the English Wikipedia tries to maintain a position of political neutrality, and Somaliland's de facto status as an independent country means that it merits recognition. The striping is common practice for similar situations. In this case, I only striped the area that's actually held by the Somaliland government.

Regards,
--Quintucket (talk) 22:44, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

Hong Kong

Article 9 of the Hong Kong Basic Law designates English as one of the officials languages along Chinese in Hong Kong. The dot representing Hong Kong should therefore be green.--Jabo-er (talk) 03:44, 17 November 2011 (UTC)