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Copied from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Weltreligionen.png and translated into English. Original source http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Weltreligionen.png is GFDL.

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This map shows the religion practiced by the majority of religious persons in the states of the world. It does not depict non-religious populations. (For example, although recent surveys[1] estimate that 54-61% of Czechs, 43-54% of French, and 46-85% of Swedes self-identify as atheist, agnostic, or non-spriritual, those nations are depicted as Other Groups, Catholic, and Protestant, respectively.) If the ratio of the largest religious group to the next largest religious group is less than 60:40, then the color of the state is a blend of the colors of the two largest groups. Therefore:

• States consisting of multiple nations, countries, or autonomous regions receive a single color determined by the aggregate of their inhabitants. Thus, Tibet, for example, receive the same color as the People's Republic of China, even though that color does not accurately describe the Vajrayana Buddhist religious affiliation of its inhabitants.
• Persons without a religion are not counted in determining the majority religion. Because of this, the Netherlands is colored steel-blue (mixed Protestant and Catholic), even though there are more non-religious people than there are Catholics, who constitute the largest religious group[2].
• Regions within a state whose predominant religion is different from the plurality religion of the nation-state are not separately indicated. Thus, southern Sudan receives the same color as the rest of the state of which it is a part, even though that color does not accurately describe the religious affiliation of the inhabitants of those regions.
• Vietnam should only be labelled as "Mahayana Buddhist", as opposed to the hybrid "Mahayana-Catholic" colour. Catholics form the largest religious minority there, but they hardly constitute any cultural, political, or even social relevance. In other words, Vietnamese Catholics don't form any "small majority" like the map might suggest.
• Here is the sources (all of it is very biased Christian) that shows predominant religion in Vietnam is Mahayana Buddhism.It's very odd when it show Vietnam is "Mahayana-Catholic":

1. http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2006/71363.htm
2. http://www.vietnamembassy.us/news/story.php?d=20070202130018
3. http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/nationprofiles/Vietnam/rbodies.html
4. http://www.religiousintelligence.co.uk/country/?CountryID=5
5. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/country_profiles/1243338.stm

The map is a bit misleading because if you look at India, there is a slight tint in the coloring of it to be green for the Christian-Muslim map, but it is interesting to note that India has the third highest population of Muslims of any country in the world.

• According to the CIA factbook, 9.3 are Buddhist, while 6.7% are Catholic, more than 50% have a religion. So the major religions of Vietnam would be Buddhism and Catholicism

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