Shia Sunni Map Of World
Sunnis are a majority in most muslim communities.
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Sunni is the largest sect of islam and is a religion that is followed by as many as 90 of the 1 5 billion muslims around the world. The majority of muslims are sunnis estimates suggest the. Yet it is times like these after years of. There is no scorecard for pain.
Shia and sunni are the two main branches of islam. So the maps below show the estimated distribution of the sunni and shia populations within a percentage range of the total population. What s the geographical split. The word sunni is derived from the word.
85 of the muslim world s population is sunni and the rest of 15 is shiite. This just became the most important map in geopolitics 961785. People that follow this branch of islam are known as sunnites or sunnis. The majority of the world s muslims are sunni between 85 and 90 per cent according to most counts and spread across africa the middle east and asia.
The global distribution of sunni and shia muslims. In revolution and war everyone s truth is real. In southeast asia china south asia africa and a part of the arab world.