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I did a quick search, it seems it's similar to imperial and metric in that it's only the US doing 1st floor as ground floor. It's for various reasons, but in most European languages the word used for the numbered "floors" either means "horizontal division between floors" or the first "construction over the previous floor", so it makes sense that the first is the first above the ground.
It's like the basement, the ground floor is special.
Ah so they don't call floors floors...they call the space floor.
Which is completely dumb haha.
They might call it "first elevation" for example.
It's just different words.