List of multilingual countries and regions

Many countries, such as Belarus, Belgium, Canada, Finland, India, Ireland, South Africa and Switzerland, which are officially multilingual, may have many monolinguals in their population.

[155] Kazakhstan is taking its huge step into multilingualism by accepting the trilingualism policy and making changes in law.

Former president Nursultan Nazarbaev noted that "The multinationality and multilingualism are one of the values and the main feature of our state.

Lower Sorbian is an official minority language in Brandenburg, Upper Sorbian in Saxony, Sater Frisian in a part of Lower Saxony, and North Frisian varieties and Danish in Schleswig-Holstein.

[204] Germany is home to large numbers of people from other regions, and some of their languages, such as Turkish, Russian, and Polish, are widely used throughout the country.

A trash can in Seattle labeled in four languages: English , Chinese ( 垃圾 ), Vietnamese (should be rác ), and Spanish . The word basura is also present in the Tagalog language
A sign in the Charyn Canyon indicating a tourist trail written in Kazakh, Russian and English.
A sign-board that indicates the direction to Sabarimala , a pilgrim station in India. The multilingual board is written in Hindi , Malayalam , Tamil , Kannada , Telugu and English (in that order, from top to bottom)