Germanic Europe
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Green: Countries and regions where a Germanic language is the national language
Blue: Countries and regions where a Germanic language is an official language
Germanic Europe is the part of Europe in which Germanic languages are predominant. This area corresponds more or less to north-western Europe and some parts of central Europe.
This region consists of Iceland, Germany, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Austria, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, the Faroe Islands, the German speaking part of Switzerland, Flanders and the smaller German-speaking community in Belgium, the Swedish-speaking municipalities of Finland, Alsace-Moselle and French Flanders in France, and the South Tyrol autonomous province in Italy.
The main religion of the region is or was Protestantism, but the region is also home to significant Catholic populations, especially in the Republic of Ireland, southern Germany (particularly Bavaria), Austria as well as Switzerland, Belgium and the southern regions of the Netherlands.
