Benin

Burkina Faso

Cabo Verde

Côte d'Ivoire

Gambia

Ghana

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Liberia

Mali

Niger

Nigeria

Senegal

Sierra Leone

Togo

Sub-Saharan Africa

A map highlights E C O W A S members highlighted in blue. Some of the Countries are Mali, Niger, Senegal, Nigeria, Guinea, and Côte d'Ivoire.

Member states of the Economic Community of West African States, an organization founded in 1975 to promote economic integration among its members

Countries

ECOWAS

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Members

Alaska

Arizona

Utah

Yukon

Northwest Territories

District of Columbia

Florida

Idaho

New Hampshire

Rhode Island

Vermont

Washington

Wyoming

Nunavut

Montana

Maine

North Dakota

Kentucky

Nova Scotia

Virginia

Delaware

Prince Edward Island

Saskatchewan

Mississippi

West Virginia

Nebraska

Texas

Missouri

Louisiana

Hawaii

North Carolina

Oregon

New Brunswick

Alabama

New Mexico

Kansas

Wisconsin

British Columbia

Newfoundland and Labrador

New Jersey

South Carolina

Michigan

Alberta

Connecticut

Pennsylvania

Colorado

Nevada

Massachusetts

Georgia

New York

Maryland

Québec

Manitoba

Oklahoma

Tennessee

Ontario

California

Arkansas

South Dakota

Ohio

Indiana

Minnesota

Iowa

Illinois

None

A world map shows the distribution of religious practitioners. Agnostics are highlighted dark green. Buddhists are highlighted red. Chinese folk-religionists are highlighted blue. Christians are highlighted pink. Ethnoreligionists are highlighted medium green. Hindus are highlighted medium orange. Jews are highlighted dark orange. Muslims are highlighted dark gray. Sikhs are highlighted black.

Distribution of world major religions, as well as, folk and tribal religions

Religious Practitioners

In the Americas, Christians are the largest religious group in North America and in almost every country in South America. Hinduism is the major religion in most of Guyana and a few small areas in nearby Suriname. Christians predominate throughout Europe, except for a few small areas on the Balkan peninsula, which are majority Muslim. Africa between the Sahel and the Mediterranean is mostly Muslim, except in parts of several West African countries where ethnoreligionists (tribalists) predominate. Enclaves of Christians are also found in the southern (coastal) parts of some of these countries, including Liberia, Cote d’Ivoire, Togo, Benin, and Nigeria. South of the Sahel, most of sub-Saharan Africa is majority Christian, except in East Africa where Muslims predominate in all of Sudan and Somalia and in parts of Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Mozambique. People in southern Tanzania, central Mozambique, and most of Madagascar are mainly ethnoreligionists (tribalists). Mostly Muslims inhabit Southwest and Central Asia, except in Israel, where Jews predominate, and Armenia, which is Christian. In South Asia, Muslims are the majority in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and part of Sri Lanka (which also has Buddhist and Muslim areas). India is mainly Hindu, with an area of Sikhs in the northwest and ethnoreligionists (tribalists) in the northeast. Nepal is mainly Hindu, whereas nearby Bhutan is Buddhist. In Southeast Asia, the mainland countries of Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia are mainly Buddhist, although Laos is divided between Buddhists and ethnoreligionists (tribalists). Thailand and Myanmar both have small areas of Christians, whereas Myanmar also has a Muslim minority. Malaysia and Indonesia are predominantly Muslim, with a few Christian areas in Indonesia. Philippines is majority Christian, with some Muslims in the south. In East Asia, Mongolia is mainly ethnoreligionists (tribalists); North Korea is mainly agnostic; South Korea is mostly Christian; and Japan is mostly Buddhist. China is more complicated: western China is majority Muslim; in eastern, central, and southern China (and in Taiwan), Chinese folk religionists predominate; the rest of the country is officially agnostic. Christianity is the main religion throughout Oceania.

World

Harvard WorldMap

A map illustrates major soil orders worldwide including ultisols, aridisols, histosols, entisols, rocky land, alfisols, shifting sand, spodosols, gelisols, inceptisols, oxisols, andisols, vertisols, mollisols, and ice/glacier.

Major Soil Orders

Areas shaded in various colors represent major soil orders globally.Ultisols (yellow) are found in the eastern United States, parts of Africa, Southeast Asia, and northern Australia.Aridisols (green) dominate desert regions such as the southwestern United States, northern Africa (Sahara), and parts of Central Asia. Other regions include southern parts of South America and parts of Australia.Histosols (light green) are found in parts of Canada, northern Europe, and Russia.Entisols (light green) are scattered globally in areas like western North America, parts of South America, Africa, and Asia.Rocky Land (very light gray) is found in mountainous regions like the Rockies in North America, the Andes in South America, and part of central Asia.Alfisols (light gray) are found in parts of the United States, Europe, Africa, India, and Australia.Shifting Sand (gray) appears in desert regions such as the Sahara and central Australia. Other regions include parts of Saudi Arabia, China, and Uzbekistan.Spodosols (blue gray) cover most of Canada and parts of Europe such as Sweden.Gelisols (light blue) dominate northern regions of Canada and Russia. Other regions include parts of China.Inceptisols (blue) appear in regions such as Alaska, parts of Canada, Europe, and scattered across Russia, South Africa, and Asia.Oxisols (dark gray) are prevalent in tropical regions like the Amazon Basin in South America and parts of Southeast Asia. Other regions include parts of Africa.Andisols (blue) are found in volcanic regions like parts of the Pacific Northwest in the United States, parts of Mexico and Chile.Vertisols (light green) are found in regions such as India, parts of Africa, and eastern Australia. Other regions include eastern parts of Mexico and parts of Uruguay.Mollisols (maroon) cover the central plains of the United States, parts of South America, and Eastern Europe.Ice slash Glacier (blue) covers Greenland and parts of Arctic.

USDA

American Samoa (U.S.)

Australia

Cook Is. (New Zealand)

Fiji

French Polynesia (France)

Guam (U.S.)

Kiribati

Marshall Is.

Micronesia

Nauru

New Zealand

Northern Mariana Is. (U.S.)

Palau

Papua New Guinea

Samoa

Solomon Is.

St. Helena (U.K.)

Tuvalu

Australia & Oceania

Anguilla (U.K.)

Antigua and Barbuda

Aruba (Neth.)

Bahamas

Barbados

Bermuda (U.K.)

British Virgin Is. (U.K.)

Cayman Is. (U.K.)

Cuba

Dominica

Dominican Republic

Grenada

Haiti

Jamaica

Seychelles

St. Kitts and Nevis

St. Lucia

St. Martin (France)

St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Trinidad and Tobago

Turks and Caicos Is. (U.K.)

U.S. Virgin Is. (U.S.)

Caribbean

Afghanistan

Kazakhstan

Kyrgyzstan

Tajikistan

Turkmenistan

Uzbekistan

Central Asia

China

Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)

Japan

Macau S.A.R. (China)

Mongolia

Nepal

North Korea

South Korea

Taiwan

East Asia

Armenia

Azerbaijan

Russia

Eurasia

Albania

Andorra

Austria

Belarus

Belgium

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bulgaria

Croatia

Cyprus

Czechia

Denmark

Estonia

Finland

France

Germany

Gibraltar (U.K.)

Greece

Guernsey (U.K.)

Hungary

Iceland

Ireland

Isle of Man (U.K.)

Italy

Jersey (U.K.)

Kosovo

Latvia

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Malta

Moldova

Monaco

Montenegro

Montserrat (U.K.)

Netherlands

Northern Macedonia

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Romania

San Marino

Serbia

Europe

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Members	Religious Practitioners	Major Soil Orders													Rate of Natural Increase (RNI)
Value	Christians	Ultisols	Aridisols	Histosols	Entisols	Rocky Land	Alfisols	Spodosols	Gelisols	Inceptisols	Andisols	Vertisols	Mollisols	Ice/Glacier	Class	Rank	per 1000 people







	99.3%	29.2%	9.16%	4.00%	5.44%	0.754%	6.87%	5.89%	3.80%	7.01%	1.28%	2.72%	23.6%	5.25%

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Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Members