- Algeria
- Benin
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Comoros
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Republic of the Congo
- Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
- Djibouti
- Equatorial Guinea
- Gabon
- Guinea
- Madagascar (partial)
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mauritius (partial)
- Morocco (partial)
- Niger
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Seychelles (partial)
- Togo
- Tunisia (partial)
Note: Some countries have French as an official language alongside indigenous languages, and in others, French is more widely spoken due to historical ties with France.