PHP-Powered Government Websites by Country

After reading the Digital Sovereignty Is Written in PHP, I became curious where in the world is PHP used in the governement.

Governments may be large or small, and it may have several departements, ministries, cabinets or even local administrations with competing technologies. For this page, I only collected at least one PHP powered site.

The list has all 191 UN Member States + 1 UN Observer State, sorted alphabetically by English name. There are some Notes at the bottom, and an Methodology Annex with details about the methodology. This page might not get much update in the future, but a related repository php-in-the-world is ready to host updates and complements.

Note: some websites may not be available to you for various reasons.

PHP in every governments on the planet

Named PHP Projects

The table above names these PHP frameworks and CMSs. It excludes generic “Custom PHP” entries, which aren’t a single named project:

Notes

• Caribbean and Central American nations, Bahamas, Guatemala, Honduras, show a strong preference for WordPress, likely due to ease of use and lower maintenance costs for smaller IT departments.
• China’s inclusion might seem surprising, since the central government in Beijing relies heavily on custom enterprise Java. But many municipal and provincial portals, including the English-language Beijing government site, utilize Drupal to handle multilingual content and international public relations.
• Estonia is famous for its advanced digital society, called e-Governance. While much of its backend infrastructure is custom-built, its main government web portal uses Drupal for frontend content management.
• European Microstates: Liechtenstein relies on Drupal, while Andorra uses TYPO3, sharing a tech affinity with Switzerland and Germany. Monaco’s official portal is a beautifully executed Drupal site.
• Francophone Africa is heavily represented by WordPress. Countries like Benin, Burundi, DR Congo, Djibouti, and Haiti all rely on it for their presidential portals, valuing rapid deployment, easy content updates, and low hosting overhead.
• Israel’s single unified government portal is a major Drupal implementation, handling millions of interactions and integrating with their “Tofes Yarok” (Green Pass) systems during the pandemic.
• Japan and Malaysia are great examples of major Asian governments utilizing WordPress VIP or heavily customized WordPress enterprise setups for their primary portals.
• Joomla is less common than Drupal or WordPress for large federal portals, but remains in active or legacy use across the Middle East, North Africa, and parts of Asia, Iran, Pakistan, Iraq, Mozambique, Laos, and Syria all run government or e-government portals on it, often valued for its strong out-of-the-box multilingual support. Cuba and Nepal are further examples, in more budget-conscious or historically isolated tech environments.
• Laravel in Vietnam: the main government portal utilizes Laravel, a robust PHP framework. This shows that governments don’t just use “out-of-the-box” CMSs, some build highly customized, bespoke applications using modern PHP frameworks.
• The Middle East has heavily embraced Drupal. Qatar’s “Hukoomi” portal and Saudi Arabia’s “My.gov.sa” are massive, highly customized Drupal implementations serving millions of citizens and expats in multiple languages.
• Oman stands out in the Gulf region. While many of its neighbors use custom enterprise Java or .NET setups, Oman’s central portal has heavily leveraged Drupal to manage its massive digital transformation and Arabic/English content.
• The post-Soviet sphere (Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan) shows a strong trend of utilizing Drupal for e-government modernization, favoring its ability to handle Cyrillic alphabets and complex user permissions securely.
• Russia’s capital city, Moscow, runs one of the largest and most complex Drupal installations in the world. mos.ru handles tens of millions of users and integrates hundreds of city services: a premier example of enterprise-level PHP at massive scale.
• Rwanda continues its reputation as a tech-forward African nation by running its main portal on Drupal, aligning with its national strategy to digitize government services.
• San Marino uses a custom PHP setup for its official portal, proving that smaller European microstates often rely on bespoke PHP applications tailored to their specific administrative needs rather than off-the-shelf CMSs.
• The shift towards Drupal across Eastern Europe (Czechia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia) is particularly strong due to its native support for multilingual content and complex user role management.
• Small Island Developing States (SIDS) across the Caribbean and Pacific, with Grenada, São Tomé and Príncipe, Guyana, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Tonga, Vanuatu, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, overwhelmingly favor WordPress and Drupal. Both platforms let small IT departments deploy modern, secure government sites without needing large in-house development or server teams.
• Singapore is a fantastic example of a highly developed, secure digital government portal running on Drupal.
• South Korea might seem like an unusual entry, since the central government often relies on custom Java-based platforms. However, local and major municipal portals, like the Seoul Metropolitan Government, heavily utilize Drupal for their public-facing websites, particularly for their multilingual expat portals.
• SPIP powers Burkina Faso: the presidency site uses this highly respected PHP CMS, originally created in France. It has historically been very popular in Francophone Africa for its multilingual and structural capabilities, though many sites are now migrating to WordPress or Drupal.
• Sweden’s official informational portal runs on WordPress, demonstrating how different branches of a government, informational vs. administrative, might use different stacks.
• Türkiye: the linked site is the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Many Turkish government ministries rely on Drupal, though some specific e-service gateways use custom or .NET backends.
• Ukraine is a massive success story for Drupal. Despite the ongoing war, their highly robust Drupal-based government portal has remained online and functional, showcasing the CMS’s resilience and decentralized capabilities.
• Uzbekistan is a standout, utilizing a custom Laravel backend for gov.uz. Laravel is increasingly popular for bespoke government applications that need highly specific API integrations and business logic that a traditional CMS might not handle gracefully out-of-the-box.

Methodology and Caveats

The country list is based on current UN member states, plus Palestine as a UN observer state.

For each country, sites were searched roughly in this order, stopping once a PHP-powered site was found:

1. The main government portal (e.g. a .gov / .gob / .gouv domain, or an official national portal).
2. The presidency site, or equivalent head-of-state site, where the main portal wasn’t a good match.
3. The prime minister’s office and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
4. Major city or capital-city government sites, for countries where no suitable national-level PHP site was found.

Government tech stacks are occasionally migrated, and the sites listed above are historically or currently powered by PHP-based frameworks/CMSs (such as Drupal, WordPress, TYPO3, SilverStripe, SPIP, Symfony, or Laravel).

These sites change fast, and availability is not guaranteed: government domains can go offline, get redesigned onto a different stack, or become unreachable for stretches of time: particularly around elections, coups, sanctions, or armed conflict. Treat this list as a snapshot, not a live status check.

This list has a related repository called php-in-the-world, that can accept more insights, domains and recept updates.