With a single update, Google Maps has added support for as many as 1.25 billion people by offering the service in 39 more languages. Google says that prior to the update, about 1 billion people relied on Google Maps to navigate their way around this little rock we call Earth.

Its hard to believe that Google Maps debuted in 2004 and was originally offered in English only. The app was pre-installed on iOS until Apple replaced it with Apple Maps on iOS 6.
 
The update adds the new language support to both the mobile and desktop version of Google Maps on Android, iOS, Mac, and Windows. If you would like to install the latest available version of Google Maps on your phone, click on the appropriate link: (iOS|Android).

The languages that will now be supported by Google Maps includes:

• Afrikaans
  Albanian
  Amharic
  Armenian
  Azerbaijani
  Bosnian
  Burmese
  Croatian
  Czech
  Danish
  Estonian
  Filipino
  Finnish
  Georgian
  Hebrew
  Icelandic
  Indonesian
  Kazakh
  Khmer
  Kyrgyz
  Lao
  Latvian
  Lithuanian
  Macedonian
  Malay
  Mongolian
  Norwegian
  Persian
  Romanian
  Serbian
  Slovak
  Slovenian
  Swahili
  Swedish
  Turkish
  Ukrainian
  Uzbek
  Vietnamese
  Zulu