3. Pakistan Islamabad 167,410,000 10.5%


4. Bangladesh Dhaka 133,540,000 8.4%


5. Nigeria Abuja 77,300,000 4.8%


6. Egypt Cairo 76,990,000 4.8%


7. Iran Teheran 73,570,000 4.6%


8. Turkey Ankara 71,330,000 4.5%


9. Algeria Algiers 34,730,000 2.2%


10. Morocco Rabat 31,940,000 - 



Muslims live in, but also have an official status in the following regions:

• Africa: North African countries such as Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Sudan; Northeast African countries like Somalia, Somaliland (de facto state), Eritrea, Ethiopia and Djibouti; and West African countries like Mali, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Niger and Nigeria.
• Asia: Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Xinjiang (China)
• Southwest Asia: Arab nations such as Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and non-Arab nations such as Turkey and Northern Cyprus.
• South Asia: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, India, Bangladesh and the Maldives
• Southeast Asia: Indonesia, Brunei and Malaysia
• East Asia: parts of China (Ningxia)
• Europe: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, Russia (North Caucasus and Volga Region) and Ukraine (especially in the Crimea)

The countries of Southwest Asia, and some in Northern and Northeastern Africa are considered part of the Greater Middle East. In Chechnya, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay–Cherkessia, Ingushetia, Tatarstan, Bashkortostan in Russia, Muslims are in the majority.
Some definitions would also include the Muslim minorities in:

• several countries of Europe, of which the Muslim population in Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, France, Georgia, Germany, Macedonia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Russia and Switzerland make up at least 5% of the total population of each of those countries, and with more than half of European Muslims, 28,071,000, living in Russia, France, Germany and the United Kingdom,^[74][76]
• several regions of Russia, other than ethnic republics above (Adygea, North Ossetia–Alania, etc.)
• some parts of India (India has the third-largest population of Muslims of any country)
• Singapore, Burma (Myanmar), Pattani (Thailand), and Mindanao (Philippines)
• Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago.
• Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Malawi, South Africa, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Uganda, Ethiopia