Twitter Language Maps
The following maps show the dominant language used on Twitter in a specific area. (Although results vary significantly between runs.)
White areas indicate lack of tweets, unreliable language detection or languages that aren't listed.
Made using the Twitter API, Google Maps and a language detection API.
Maps
North America
![](jpgs/north-america.jpg)
English
Spanish
French
Japanese
Iberian Peninsula
![](jpgs/iberian-peninsula.jpg)
Spanish
Portuguese
English
French
Western Europe (South, ignoring English)
![](jpgs/western-europe.jpg)
French
Italian
Japanese
Spanish
Asia
![](jpgs/asia.jpg)
English
Japanese
Malay (Indonesia)
Russian
South America (ignoring English)
![](jpgs/south-america.jpg)
Japanese
Portuguese
Spanish
Middle East
![](jpgs/middle-east.jpg)
English
Japanese
Arabic
Spanish
London (ignoring English)
![](jpgs/london-no-english.jpg)
Spanish
Japanese
Indonesian
Malay (Indonesia)
![](jpgs/london-with-english.jpg)
Berlin (ignoring English)
![](jpgs/berlin-no-english.jpg)
German
Turkish
Malay (Indonesia)
Spanish