Comapred to Italy,why do France and Germany have more cultural/language centres abaord?

<h3>Comapred to Italy,why do France and Germany have more cultural/language centres abaord?</h3>

The cultural centres of the following countries :

Germany --> Goethe Institut
France ---> Alliance Francaise
Italy ------> Dante Aligheri Society

Is it because France and Germany has a stronger "soft power" comapred to Italy? Or other reasons? Or the Italian government don't do well in promoting their langague( compared to France and Germany government who promotes French and German respectivly ) ?


<strong>French Polynesia best answer:</strong>
<p><i>Answer by silversight2189</i><br/>The reason may be due to the fact that there are more French and German speakers throughout the world, compared to Italian speakers.

There are 500 million French speakers and 180 million German speakers worldwide. However, there are only 74 million Italian speakers worldwide.</p>
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