Islamic Countries Names List In The World. Like christianity a big number of people adhere to this creed. Countries with islam as state religion other countries are not quite considered islamic states although islam is the politically defined state religion.
The major islamic states are iran pakistan saudi arabia afghanistan mauritania and yemen. A table showing the 50 countries with the highest percentage of muslims as of 2005. They include egypt jordan iraq kuwait algeria malaysia maldives morocco libya tunisia united arab emirates somalia and brunei.
The region with the most muslims is the middle east north africa region.
According to the pew research center there are a total of 50 muslim majority nations in the world. The major islamic states are iran pakistan saudi arabia afghanistan mauritania and yemen. Countries with islam as state religion other countries are not quite considered islamic states although islam is the politically defined state religion. The number of muslims reached one billion and a half in 2011.