Shia And Sunni Population In World Map

Shia and sunni are the two main branches of islam.

Shia and sunni population in world map. Shia sunni map india shia sunni map of middle east shia sunni map of world behind stark political divisions a more plex map of sunnis and maps of iraq and syria showing location of the kurds sunnis and map of saudi and iran proxy war business insider arabs and persians shiites and. Although the majority of the nigerian muslim population is sunni there is a significant shia minority particularly in the northern states of kano and sokoto. Islam is the dominant religion in central asia indonesia middle east north africa the sahel and some other parts of asia. The alevi constitute the second largest religious community in turkey following the sunnis and number some 25 20 million of the total population.

The islam population is mainly split between 1 5 billion sunni muslims and 240 340 million shia muslims with some others belonging to smaller denominations. Shia make up the majority of the citizen population in iraq bahrain iran and azerbaijan as well as being a politically significant minority in pakistan lebanon syria yemen and kuwait. Sunni 80 85 roughly 1 5 billion people or shia 15 20 roughly 240 340 million people. In southeast asia china south asia africa and a part of the arab world.

This just became the most important map in geopolitics 961785. There is also a twelver shia community which forms about 5 of the muslim population. The largest muslim country is indonesia where an estimated 229 million muslims are. Sunnis are a majority in most muslim communities.

The global distribution of sunni and shia muslims. However there are no actual statistics that reflect a shia population in nigeria and a figure of even 35 of the total nigerian muslim population is thought to be too high because of the routine conflation of shi a with sunnis who express solidarity with the iranian revolutionary program such as those of zakzaky s ikhwani. The majority of muslims are sunnis estimates. Click on the map for a very large scan.

So the maps below show the estimated distribution of the sunni and shia populations within a percentage range of the total population. The word sunni is derived from the word sunnah which. The shia s are around 20 population of syria and turkey. People that follow this branch of islam are known as sunnites or sunnis.

Most muslims are either of two denominations. Sunnis have different beliefs from shi ites followers of shia islam.