Native speaking while commonly include official population notable English is perhaps most (1) ___________ associated with the United States and the United Kingdom; the two largest English-speaking countries. It is believed that there are around 230 million (2) ____________ speakers in the United States, making it the largest English-speaking country, (3) __________ the United Kingdom has approximately 60 million native speakers. Despite having two different (4) _________ languages, Canada has the third largest English-speaking (5) _________, with somewhere in the region of 20 million native speakers, while Australia is next in the list, with around 17 million. Some of the other (6) ___________ countries around the world where English is the primary language (7) ____________ the Republic of Ireland, South Africa and New Zealand. Combined, these three countries are believed to be home to around 13 million people (8) _____________ English as their first language.