This map shows the language in which the plurality of Wikipedia articles on a

given country are written. Some countries match up. Articles about European
countries tend to be mostly written in their languages (though intriguingly
Catalan is the plurality language for articles about Spain, perhaps because of
an old breakaway competitor to Wikipedia in that country). Same goes for East
Asian countries and the US.

But a whole lot of countries are most commonly written about in English, and
not just countries where English is a major language. There’s not much
reason for English to be the most common language for articles about
Mongolia, for example. Out of all the world’s Arabic speaking countries, only
Syria appears to have Arabic as its most common Wikipedia language.

German has footholds in Bolivia, Uruguay, and Namibia. These

make some degree of sense; Germany colonized Namibia until World War I
(committing the first modern genocide in the process) and a small German-
speaking population remains today, while Bolivia and Uruguay have small
German-speaking communities that migrated in the late 19th and 20th
centuries. But really, most articles about Bolivia ought to be in Spanish.

Joey Stromberg has more on Wikipedia’s geography and language problems

here.

3) The language groups of the world

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