Modern Religion Map

A map showing the modern distribution of religions. [via]

Comments

[passerby]

I'm curious as to why Bangladesh is covered in Hindu light-purple. its around 80% muslim IIRC. Also southern Iraq should be Shia and Bosnia should look a little more complicated. The odd Indonesian Island should be Hindu. And what exactly is Jamaica supposed to be? Jewish or 'tribal'?
OK, i'll stop being a geopgraphy nerd now.

[Person]

Well, I wonder who mapped it because it not right. For instance, Bhutan is predominatly Buddhist while Nepal is Hindu.

[Peter]

The author certainly has little clue about Asian religions. This map recognizes two major branches of Christianity, two major branches of Islam, but failed to classify the three major branches of Buddhism.

The whole blab of green labeled "Chinese religions" is as vague as combining Europe and the Americas into one color. China probably has 1/3 of the world's Buddhists but the blab failed to address that.

[Mike Elgan]

This map is horribly inaccurate. They've got Most of California and Oregon, a big part of the "Babtist Belt" in the South, Alaska and most New England states as "Mostly Roman Catholic," which is absurd. These are bastions of Protestantism.

Iraq is 60 percent Shia, but this map has them down as Sunni.

The errors go on and on.

Mike

[passerby]

Damn, we're all geography nerds.