WebThe European Union is a supranational union composed of 27 member states. The total English-speaking population of the European Union and the United Kingdom combined (2012) is 256,876,220 (out of a total population of 500,000,000, i.e. 51%) including 65,478,252 native speakers and 191,397,968 non-native speakers, and would be ranked …

WebThe Anglosphere is a group of English-speaking nations that share historical and cultural ties with England, and which today maintain close political, diplomatic and military co-operation. While the nations included in different sources vary, the Anglosphere is usually not considered to include all countries where English is an official language, so it is not …

WebEnglish Canadian, Irish Canadian, Scottish Canadian, French Canadian, Jewish Canadian, Italian Canadian, Greek Canadian, Chinese Canadian The origins of English-speaking Quebecers include immigration from both English-speaking and non English-speaking countries, migration from other Canadian provinces , and strong English language …

WebEnglish is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.English is genealogically West Germanic, closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages; …

WebThe following is a list of countries and territories where English is an official language—that is, a language used in citizen interactions with government officials. As of 2020, there were 59 sovereign states and 27 non-sovereign entities where English was an official language.Many administrative divisions have declared English an official language at the …

WebJules Gabriel Verne (/ v ɜːr n /; French: [ʒyl gabʁijɛl vɛʁn]; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand …

WebThe Inglehart–Welzel cultural map of the world is a scatter plot created by political scientists Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel based on the World Values Survey and European Values Survey. It depicts closely linked cultural values that vary between societies in two predominant dimensions: traditional versus secular-rational values on the vertical y-axis …

WebQuebec City (/ k w ɪ ˈ b ɛ k / or / k ə ˈ b ɛ k /; French: Ville de Québec), officially Québec ( ()), is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec.As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, and the metropolitan area had a population of 839,311. It is the eleventh-largest city and the seventh-largest metropolitan area in Canada. It is also the …

WebIn the United States, White Anglo-Saxon Protestants or WASPs are an ethnoreligious group who are the white, upper-class, American Protestant historical elite, typically of British descent. WASPs dominated American society, culture, and politics for most of the history of the United States. From the 1950s, the New Left criticized the WASP hegemony and …

WebHumpty Dumpty is a character in an English nursery rhyme, probably originally a riddle and one of the best known in the English-speaking world.He is typically portrayed as an anthropomorphic egg, though he is not explicitly described as such.The first recorded versions of the rhyme date from late eighteenth-century England and the tune from 1870 …