German language in Europe

Approximate distribution of native German speakers (assuming a rounded total of 95 million) worldwide.

The following is a list of the territorial entities where German is an official language. It includes countries, which have German as (one of) their nationwide official language(s), as well as dependent territories with German as a co-official language.

German is the official language of six countries, all of which lie in central Europe. These countries (with the addition of South Tyrol) also form the Council for German Orthography and are referred to as the German Sprachraum (German language area).

The three major German-speaking countries (Germany [D], Austria [A], Switzerland [CH]) are commonly denoted as the DACH-area.

German, or one of its dialects, is a co-official language in several dependent entities. In each of these regions, German, along with the official language of the host nation, is an official language on the administrative level.

In the two Slovak villages of Krahule/Blaufuss and Kunešov/Kuneschhau (total population 530) the percentage of ethnic Germans exceeds 20%, therefore making German a co-official language according to Slovak law. However, due to the size of the villages and the approximate number of native German speakers (~100), the administrative impact is negligible.

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