How many Muslims are there in Europe?

There are no Muslim countries in Europe, but there are Muslims living in many European countries.

"Muslim countries" are also called "Islamic countries". "Islamic countries" generally refer to countries and regions where Islam is the state religion and most residents believe in Islam.

They include all Arab countries (Kuwait, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Somalia, Djibouti and Comoros).

Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Mali, Niger, Nigeria and Chad in Africa, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania and Kosovo in Europe, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in Asia.

Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Maldives, Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei, including 47 countries and 2 regions (Western Sahara and Kosovo). Only about half of the people in Lebanon, Chad, Nigeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Malaysia believe in Islam.

There are also some countries where Muslims do not make up the majority of the population, but because of the influence of Islam, they have also been declared Islamic countries and joined the Organization of the Islamic Conference. They are Guinea-Bissau, C? te d 'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, Cameroon, Gabon, Uganda, Tanzania (joined in 2009) and Mozambique in Africa, and Guyana and Suriname in South America.

Extended data:

Muslims refer to the followers of Islam. The traditional Muslim world refers to countries or regions where the Muslim population accounts for more than 50% of the total population. In modern international political terminology, Islamic countries refer to the 57 member countries and 2 regions of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (Western Sahara and Kosovo). The Muslim world in a broad sense refers to all the places where Muslims live in compact communities.

I distribution of the 57 member States of the organization of Islamic cooperation

These 57 member countries are mainly distributed in the following areas:

22 Arab countries: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia (five countries in North Africa); United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia (six Gulf countries); Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Jordan (five countries in West Asia); Djibouti, Mauritania, Sudan, Somalia, Comoros (five sub-Saharan Arab countries); Yemen (a country in the Arabian Peninsula).

1 European country: Albania.

Three Southeast Asian countries: Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei.

Three South Asian countries: Pakistan, Bangladesh and Maldives.

Five Central Asian countries: Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

Four countries in West Asia and the Caucasus: Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran and Afghanistan.

Two South American countries: Suriname and Guyana (the population is only 560,000 and 750,000 respectively, and the Muslim population accounts for about 30% of the total population, which is the two countries with the largest proportion of Muslim population in the Western Hemisphere, so they were chartered as observer countries in 1996 and 1998).

West and Central African countries: Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Chad, Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Gabon, Cameroon, Mozambique, Uganda, C? te d 'Ivoire and Togo.

In the last nine countries, Muslims do not account for the majority of the population, but they not only applied to join the Organization of Islamic Cooperation around 2009, but also declared themselves Muslim countries.

Among these countries, there are 12 Muslim countries with an area of over one million square kilometers. They are (unit: ten thousand square kilometers): Kazakhstan 27 1.7, Algeria 238.2, Saudi Arabia 2 15.0, Indonesia 190.5, Sudan 188 (South Sudan 201/kloc.

Among them, Kazakhstan is the largest Muslim country in the world, with a total area of 2.72 million square kilometers and a total population of about170,000. Muslims account for about 72% of the total population, while Orthodox Christians account for about 20% of the total population.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Islamic Countries