Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs (MESA)

Here are some facts about the different countries that Albright Students represent
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ARGENTINA: South America
Total Population: 39,921,883
Capital: Buenos Aires
Languages: Spanish (official), English, Italian, German, French

AUSTRALIA: Australia
Total Population: 17,562,000
Capital: Canberra
Languages: English

BANGLADESH
Population: 150,448,339
Capital: Dhaka
Language: Bangla (official, also known as Bengali), English

BOLIVIA: South America
Total Population: 7,356,000
Capital: La Paz is the acting capital
Sucre is the legal capital
Languages: Spanish, Quechua, Aymara

CAMEROON: Africa
Total Population: 17,340,702
Capital: Yaoundé
Languages: French, English

CANADA
Population: 33,390,141
Capital: Ottawa
Language: English (official) 59.3%, French (official) 23.2%, other 17.5%

CHINA: Asia
Total Population: 1,133,682,501
Capital: Beijing
Languages: Of the 56 ethnic groups in China, the Hui and Manchu use the same languages as Han people, while the rest of groups have their own spoken and written languages.

GERMANY: Europe
Total Population: 82,431,390
Capital: Berlin
Languages: German

GHANA: Africa
Total Population: 18 million
Capital: Accra
Languages: English(official), Akan, Dagnomba, Ewe, Ga

HONG KONG: Asia
Total Population: 6,900,000
Capital: None as Hong Kong is a special administrative "region" of China
Languages: Chinese, English

INDIA: Asia
Total Population: 1,027,015,247
Capital: New Delhi
Languages: English, Hindi

IRELAND
Population: 4,109,086
Capital: Dublin
Language: English (official) is the language generally used, Irish (Gaelic or Gaeilge) (official) spoken mainly in areas located along the western seaboard

JAPAN: Asia
Total Population: 126 million
Capital: Tokyo
Languages: Japanese

LIBERIA
Population: 3,195,931
Capital: Monrovia
Language: English 20% (official), some 20 ethnic group languages, of which a few can be written and are used in correspondence

MOROCCO: North Africa
Total Population: 32 million
Capital: Rabat
Languages: Arabic (official), Berber dialects, and French

NEPAL: Asia
Total Population: 23,107,464
Capital: Kathmandu
Languages: Napalese, over 30 other languages

PORTUGAL: Europe
Total Population: 10,566,212
Capital: Lisbon
Languages: Portuguese

ROMANIA
Population: 22,276,056
Capital: Bucharest
Language: Romanian 91% (official), Hungarian 6.7%, Romany (Gypsy) 1.1%, other 1.2%

RUSSIA: Asia
Total Population: 144,526,278
Capital: Moscow
Languages: Russian

SOUTH AFRICA
Population: 43,997,828
Capital: Pretoria (administrative capital)
Language: IsiZulu 23.8%, IsiXhosa 17.6%, Afrikaans 13.3%, Sepedi 9.4%, English 8.2%, Setswana 8.2%, Sesotho 7.9%, Xitsonga 4.4%, other 7.2%

SOUTH KOREA: Asia
Total Population: 48,846,823
Capital: Seoul
Languages: Korean

SPAIN
Population: 40,448,191
Capital: Madrid
Language: Castilian Spanish (official) 74%, Catalan 17%, Galician 7%, Basque 2%, are official regionally

SWITZERLAND: Europe
Total Population: 7,554,661
Capital: Bern
Languages: German, French, Italian

TAIWAN: Asia
Total Population: 23 million
Capital: Taipei
Languages: Mandarin Chinese

TANZANIA: East Africa
Total Population: 37,445,392
Capital: Dodoma
Languages: Swahili, English, Arabic

UKRAINE: Europe
Total Population: 49,811,174
Capital: Kyiv
Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Romanian, Polish, Hungarian

UNITED KINGDOM: Europe
Total Population: 60,068,000
Capital: London
Languages: English, Welsh, Scottish form of Gaelic

VIETNAM: Asia
Total Population: 75 million
Capital: Hanoi
Languages: Vietnamese, Russian, French, Chinese, English and variety of Mon-Khmer and Melayo-Polynesian

ZAMBIA
Population: 11,477,447
Capital: Lusaka
Language: English (official), major vernaculars - Bemba, Kaonda, Lozi, Lunda, Luvale, Nyanja, Tonga, and about 70 other indigenous languages