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Bert Heyman • Edited

I'll start off myself:

🇧🇪Belgium

Belgium has three official languages (Dutch, French and German) for just about 10 million inhabitants.
This means a lot of smaller businesses would still need a multilingual website.

The benefit is that their site is easier to translate in more languages once they expand further.
On the other hand, the upfront costs can be quite high: a translator, more content input and a more complex site. This might make the site more expensive for smaller businesses.

Despite English not being an official language of our country, it's still in almost all school curriculums. This comes in quite handy when using tutorials or tools like Laracasts later on.