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 predominant religion in the majority of the region is Protestantism; the national churches of the United Kingdom, northern Germany, the Nordic countries, the Netherlands and parts of Switzerland are Protestant. At the same time, some parts of the region are strongly Catholic: the Republic of Ireland, southern Germany (particularly Bavaria), Austria, Belgium, the southern regions of the Netherlands, and central and southern Switzerland.
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| Nordic | Denmark (including the Faroe Islands) · Finland (including Åland) · Iceland · Norway · Sweden |
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| German | Austria · Belgium · Alsace · Germany · Liechtenstein · Luxembourg · South Tyrol · Switzerland | |
| Dutch | Belgium · Netherlands | |
| English | Guernsey · Ireland · Isle of Man · Jersey · United Kingdom (England • Scotland • Wales • Northern Ireland) | |
| Frisian | Germany · Netherlands (Friesland) · Denmark | |
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