In jedem Land das vorherrschende Wort für „Mathematik“.

Insightful map ruined by a dated joke.

(Vietnamese for mathematics is *toán học* )

Dutch is the most common language in Belgium, so it’s „wiskunde“ too.

Why is Japanese dominant here, the character set is clearly from chinese initially and was imported to Japan as a sino-xenic word

The combination of 数学 is attested in the 13th and 14th century in the yuan dynasty

Map for China ignores the difference in all the southern/southeastern “dialects”. For instance in Wu dialects native to the areas near and including Shanghai, math is called “算術”, aka “arithmetic”

Hawk Tush was just mathematics in China all these time. We all need to apologise to her. She wanted next generation to study and learn maths.