Casablanca Ranks 5th Among World’s Largest Francophone Cities, Report Finds

These figures were revealed in the 18th edition of the Demographia World Urban Areas report written by demographers and urban planners from around the world. In Casablanca, French is the language spoken and understood by the majority of its residents. The city ranks 5th behind Abidjan and Yaoundé, the document points out.

For a few years now, we have been observing the rise of Francophone Africa, the same source indicates. Thus, according to OIF forecasts, 80% of French speakers will be Africans by 2050. French could then become the third most spoken language in the world.

The Francophone space as a whole brings together 321 million speakers worldwide, scattered across five continents. With, in each country, local accents, variants and expressions that make French the fifth most spoken on the planet, it is pointed out.

The 10 largest French-speaking cities in the world

• Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo): 12.8 million
• Paris (France): 11 million
• Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire): 5.4 million
• Yaoundé (Cameroon): 4.6 million
• Casablanca (Morocco): 4.3 million
• Bamako (Mali): 4 million
• Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso): 3.8 million
• Algiers (Algeria): 3.7 million
• Dakar (Senegal): 3.7 million
• Montreal (Quebec, Canada): 3.7 million