World Map Of Religions

The west bank shown.

World map of religions. The west bank shown. This map of world religion throws light on different religions being followed in the world and in which part of the world a religion is practiced in majority. The great majority of these fall under twelve classical religions baha i buddhism christianity confucianism hinduism islam jainism judaism shinto sikhism taoism and zoroastrianism. There are many smaller or less well known religions.

An 1883 map of the world divided into colors representing christians buddhists hindus mohammedans and pagans. World religion map abstract. Followers of hinduism are known as hindus and it has been practiced in one way or another for more than 4000 years perhaps even longer. The map features brief descriptions of each religious grouping and bar graphs that reflect the percentage of a country s population associated with each grouping.

World religion data in this dataset is from the world religion database the map shows the percentage of the majority religion by provinces states and also included in the database is christian percentage by provinces states. The world s faithful account for 83 of the global population. Hinduism is the largest religion in india and the third largest religion in the world with 1 1 billion followers. Explore religious beliefs around the world through an interactive map that displays the religions that are the most prevalent in each country around the world.

Contrary to the other two world leading religions hinduism believes in many gods and is a so called polytheistic religion. In world cultures there have traditionally been many different groupings of religious belief. However due to how much or how little different religions are represented in different communities. It shows what the biggest religion is by census area in each country along with its level of support.

Thought it should also. The map of africa and is dominated by the world s two largest religions. The religious groupings are in alphabetical order. Israel is the world s only majority jewish state 75 with 18 muslim.

In indian culture different religious philosophies were traditionally respected as academic differences in pursuit of the same truth. The incredibly detailed map of the world s religions above was created by reddit user scolbert08. Israel is the world s only majority jewish state 75 with 18 muslim. To see the full resolution version just click on it.