In which regions of the world is knowledge of English still comparatively limited?

[Tooting Carmen]

Italy has a good command of English at almost the same level as France and Portugal too, maybe you mean Spain and Greece.

Nope, Italy is usually ranked among the bottom five or so in Europe, while Greece is slightly better than France.

[Tooting Carmen]

As far as I know, (South) Koreans are better at English than Japanese people.
I have the impression that the country of South Korea is more Westernized than Japan, they also have a much smaller population compared to Nippon, which makes their society more competitive, since their market is more limited, they focus more on the overseas and having better English fluence.

(1) I think Japanese and South Koreans have a comparable level of English, i.e. not great, beyond a minority of mostly big city individuals. (2) How and why would South Korea be more Westernised than Japan, when it developed much later?

[Tooting Carmen]

Do people think I should have written Eurasia rather than Central Asia, in order to include Russia, Ukraine and the Caucasus, where English isn't especially widely-spoken either?

[Tooting Carmen]

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[Rumata]

Russia too.

[Tooting Carmen]

Russia too.

So you agree with the other places I listed? As I said to Bellbeaking, maybe I should've said Eurasia rather than just Central Asia.

[Seya]

Central Asia.
almost no one speaks english there...and by that i mean 0. most people cannot understand more than "OK"

[Rumata]

So you agree with the other places I listed? As I said to Bellbeaking, maybe I should've said Eurasia rather than just Central Asia.

I don't have objections about the places that you've listed and I guess you're right to list them. Eurasia includes western Europe and India where English is used a lot.
N. Caucasus should be included too. Ukraine and some other east European countries too. I don't know what is the current situation in S. Caucasus.

One interesting omission of mine is the Middle East. While Arabic theoretically acts as the lingua franca in most of the region, in the immigrant-heavy Gulf Arab countries English has to a considerable extent supplanted it as the main tool of communication.

I've heard the the Arab elites try to draw near the British elites. If its true, no wonder they try to adapt to the language too.

[♥ Lily ♥]

I think the Toulambi tribal people of Papua New Guinea in Oceania.

A French film crew arrived there once in the incredible recording below, and the tribal people (who've managed to preserve their ancient stone-age culture for thousands of years,) had never seen nor had any contact with the modern world outside of their tribe.

They weren't familiar with any European languages (not even English,) had never seen items such as matches, salt, cameras, shoes, modern tools, etc. They had never seen white people before and were very startled, curious, and nervous to approach the French researcher and his cameraman. They were fearful to touch the two white visitors to their tribe at first as they thought they were seeing ghosts.

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[Ruggery]

I think the Toulambi tribal people of Papua New Guinea in Oceania.

A French film crew arrived there once in the incredible recording below, and the tribal people (who've managed to preserve their ancient stone-age culture for thousands of years,) had never seen nor had any contact with the modern world outside of their tribe.

They weren't familiar with any European languages (not even English,) had never seen items such as matches, salt, cameras, shoes, modern tools, etc. They had never seen white people before and were very startled, curious, and nervous to approach the French researcher and his cameraman. They were fearful to touch the two white visitors to their tribe at first as they thought they were seeing ghosts.

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Case similar to that of the northern sentinel island.