In latin America spanish style cards are often used, and you might find some southern italian designs with italian-americans. But for the most part the rest of the world uses the standard “french” suits.

Also, nowadays if you ask for a deck of cards in most of the other places, you’re still likely to get a french-suited deck. Usually the american style (think of your typical bycicle brand card deck).

When I tried to buy a dutch style deck here in the Netherlands they didn't even have it at my local board game store! I had to order them online.

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

There's a Dutch suit too?? I feel like some island inhabitant who just learned that there's a whole world out there full of people, planes, porn, and pop culture, after having grown up alone with his coconuts. This is definitely a rabbit hole I need to explore.

Only Latin American country I've been to is Brazil, and at least the deck of cards we had there was French suit.

[–] WaterSword@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago

The brazil thing seems logical, since Portugal uses french suited cards too.

[–] WaterSword@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago

It’s not it’s own suit, we use french suits. But the design is it’s own thing, yeah!