What Countries Have a National Religion 2026
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Country | Religion (Wiki)↓ | |
|---|---|---|
 | China | Other/mixed |
 | Indonesia | Other/mixed |
 | Russia | Other/mixed |
 | Vietnam | Other/mixed |
 | France | Other/mixed |
 | Nepal | Other/mixed |
 | Syria | other/mixed |
 | Tunisia | Other/mixed |
 | Haiti | Other/mixed |
 | Dominican Republic | Other/mixed |
 | Portugal | Other/mixed |
 | Hungary | Other/mixed |
 | Switzerland | Other/mixed |
 | Nicaragua | Other/mixed |
 | Singapore | Other/mixed |
 | Lebanon | Other/mixed |
 | Armenia | Other/mixed |
 | Luxembourg | Other/mixed |
 | Romania | none |
 | Honduras | none |
 | Togo | none |
 | Belarus | none |
 | Serbia | none |
 | Liberia | none |
 | Eritrea | none |
 | Mongolia | none |
 | Moldova | none |
 | Lithuania | none |
 | Equatorial Guinea | none |
 | Eswatini | none |
 | Cape Verde | none |
 | Tonga | none |
 | Finland | Lutheranism, Eastern Orthodoxy |
 | Sweden | Lutheranism |
 | Denmark | Lutheranism |
 | Norway | Lutheranism |
 | Iceland | Lutheranism |
 | Faroe Islands | Lutheranism |
 | Greenland | Lutheranism |
 | Israel | Judaism |
 | Pakistan | Islam |
 | Bangladesh | Islam |
 | Egypt | Islam |
 | Iran | Islam |
 | Turkey | Islam |
 | Algeria | Islam |
 | Iraq | Islam |
 | Afghanistan | Islam |
 | Yemen | Islam |
 | Morocco | Islam |
 | Uzbekistan | Islam |
 | Malaysia | Islam |
 | Saudi Arabia | Islam |
 | Somalia | Islam |
 | Jordan | Islam |
 | United Arab Emirates | Islam |
 | Tajikistan | Islam |
 | Turkmenistan | Islam |
 | Libya | Islam |
 | Palestine | Islam |
 | Oman | Islam |
 | Mauritania | Islam |
 | Kuwait | Islam |
 | Qatar | Islam |
 | Bahrain | Islam |
 | Djibouti | Islam |
 | Comoros | Islam |
 | Maldives | Islam |
 | Brunei | Islam |
 | Greece | Eastern Orthodoxy |
 | Bulgaria | Eastern Orthodoxy |
 | Georgia | Eastern Orthodoxy |
 | Cyprus | Eastern Orthodoxy |
 | Zambia | Christianity |
 | Papua New Guinea | Christianity |
 | Samoa | Christianity |
 | Italy | Catholicism |
 | Spain | Catholicism |
 | Argentina | Catholicism |
 | Poland | Catholicism |
 | Peru | Catholicism |
 | Guatemala | Catholicism |
 | Paraguay | Catholicism |
 | El Salvador | Catholicism |
 | Costa Rica | Catholicism |
 | Panama | Catholicism |
 | Timor-Leste | Catholicism |
 | Malta | Catholicism |
 | Andorra | Catholicism |
 | Liechtenstein | Catholicism |
 | Monaco | Catholicism |
 | Vatican City | Catholicism |
 | Tuvalu | Calvinism |
 | Thailand | Buddhism |
 | Myanmar | Buddhism |
 | Sri Lanka | Buddhism |
 | Cambodia | Buddhism |
 | Laos | Buddhism |
 | Bhutan | Buddhism |
 | United Kingdom | Anglicanism, Calvinism |
 | Jersey | Anglicanism |
 | Isle of Man | Anglicanism |
 | Guernsey | Anglicanism |
- While some countries’ founding documents clearly designate an official state religion, others are more vague.
- For example, El Salvador’s constitution specifically prohibits restrictions based on differences of nationality, race, sex or religion, but also states that the country recognizes the Catholic Church and gives it legal preference.
- Similarly, the Dominican Republic’s constitution specifies that there is no state church, but the country also has an agreement with the Holy See that establishes Catholicism as the official religion.
- Because these uncertainties are subject to interpretation, different sources may arrive at different lists of national religions per country.
- A 2017 Pew Research poll separated countries into three groups: those with clear official religions, those with “preferred” religions that stopped just short of being official, and those which had no official or preferred religion.
There are also many countries that claim no national or state religion. Countries like the US also support and maintain the right to religious freedom. That simply means that people and citizens of the US are free to choose any religion they wish to follow.
Religion has been the backbone of many countries, and it has been the impetus behind many backs being broken too. There are also some places and some countries where certain religions are not only unsupported but forbidden. In some of those states, certain religions are even deemed illegal or outside the law.
There are also many much smaller sects and religious groups that aren’t listed, but that have organized structures. In some countries like Russia too, there is more than one recognized national religion. Russia, for example, has at least three.
