Portuguese is the official language of almost a dozen countries

There are nine: Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, Portugal, Sao Tome and Principe and Timor-Leste.
According to the Observatory of the Portuguese Language, Portuguese is the fourth most spoken language in the world, after Mandarin, Spanish and English. Of the top five of the most spoken languages, Hindi is still a part of it. If you speak only Portuguese, about 200 million people will understand.