Universal Esperanto Association
The Universal Esperanto Association, also known as the World Esperanto Association, is the largest international organization of Esperanto speakers, with 5501 individual members in 121 countries and 9215 through national associations and in official relations with the United Nations. In addition to individual members, 70 national Esperanto organizations are affiliated with UEA. Its current president is the professor Duncan Charters. The magazine Esperanto is the main organ used by UEA to inform its members about everything happening in the Esperanto community.
The Komitato, the highest organ of UEA, gathering in 2008 at the World Congress of Esperanto
The Central Office of Universal Esperanto Association in Rotterdam
UEA board members and other distinct UEA members at the inauguration of the 2015 congress
Hector Hodler, son of famous Swiss national painter Ferdinand Hodler, in 1920
Esperanto is the world's most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Created by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887, it is intended to be a universal second language for international communication, or "the international language". Zamenhof first described the language in Dr. Esperanto's International Language, which he published under the pseudonym Doktoro Esperanto. Early adopters of the language liked the name Esperanto and soon used it to describe his language. The word esperanto translates into English as "one who hopes".
7th Esperanto congress, Antwerp, August 1911
The Republic of Rose Island used Esperanto as its official language in 1968
Esperanto books at the World Esperanto Congress, Rotterdam 2008
Hungarian Cosmonaut Bertalan Farkas, the first Esperantist in space