After gaining understanding about all of this I still have to wonder why God chose to use the oldest of tribes in this prophecy rather than names more identifiable with the peoples that would have occupied those lands at a later time.

I was wondering if maybe it would be in the text itself. The earth had just started over after the flood. All the people were probably very faithful to the Lord during the first "post flood" generation. But what did Magog do that set him apart from the others of the next generation? He was not only the chief ruler over his tribe, but also over two of his brother's tribes.  Was Magog the first to attack and conquer other tribes? The first post flood person to want to dominate the known world of his time? The lust for power raising its ugly head for the first time after the flood?

If so then the message to us, from God, in using these ancient names is that of "a lust for world domination". This most certainly describes the beast of Islam today.

It would also give understanding as to why the people at the end of the 1000 years that will rise up and surround Jerusalem are also called Gog, Magog. That will also be "the world" (outside Jerusalem) trying to take Jerusalem in an attempt to dominate the world. This doesn't mean they are going to be Muslims at that time, but that they have the same goals as the original Magog, the same as Islam's goals now. Which is the world under satan's rule.

    Many of the answers concerning the actual fighting that will take place in a final Middle East war are found in the bible in Daniel chapter 11 and in Ezekiel 38.
 
 

Dan 11:40  And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over. :41 He shall enter also into the glorious land (Israel), and many [countries] shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, [even] Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon (Jordan).  :42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape. :43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians [shall be] at his steps.  :44 But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.  :45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.

*words in parentheses are authors notes.

*Cush is most likely the Sudan and Ethiopia. Sudan-The inhabitants of Sudan are divided into three main groups.
            The  northerners, who inhabit the country roughly north of 12°N lat. and mainly
             near the Nile, consist of Arab and Nubian groups; they are Muslim (mostly of
             the Sunni branch) The westerners, so called because they immigrated
             from W Africa, are also Muslim  The Sudan boarders both Libya and Egypt.
         Ethiopia-The Oromo, who make up  about 40% of the country's population, live in S Ethiopia and are predominantly Muslim. The pastoral Somali, who are also Muslim, live in E and SE Ethiopia. The Sudan lies between Ethiopia and Egypt.

We see more names listed in Ezekiel of those that will attack Israel in the end days.
 

Eze 38:2  Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,  Ezekiel 38 also speaks of the countries that will cause this end days war by attacking Israel.  Eze 38:5 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:  Eze 38:6 Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: [and] many people with thee.  Eze 38:16  And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, .....

   The following is taken from the work of Dr. Carl Ludwigson "A Survey of Bible Prophecy":
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   Ezekiel's Gog  is the enemy from the north. In the Old Testament, the king of the north has reference to the areas of Syria, Turkey, and Iraq. The word north is used of Syria or the Old Seleucid Empire six times, of Babylon sixteen times, of Assyria one time, and of Iran one time. These are the lands once occupied by Ma-gog, Gomer, Togarmah, Meshech and Tubal.

   Meshech, Tubal, Togarmah, and Syria traded with Tyre six centuries before Christ [Ezek.27:13-16]. These lands clearly define the north. The fact that some scholars equate the names of ancient Middle East cities with modern English cognates is appalling. Meshech is NOT Moscow; Moscow just had its 850th birthday.

   Some have interpreted the Hebrew word 'rosh' in Ezekiel 38:3, which is translated 'chief', to be a reference to Russia. In the Massoretic text the words 'chief prince' carry the accents Tiphha and Zaqeph-gadol.  The Tiphha appears under the resh of the Hebrew word 'rosh'; the Zaqeph-gadol appears on top of the sin of the Hebrew word 'nish'.The Tiphha to the right, underneath the initial consonant of the word 'rosh', or chief, is prepositive and does not mark the tone syllable. See Kautsch and Cowley's *Grammar*, page 61 item 9.

The word 'nish' or prince has the accent Zaqeph-gadol which is disjunctive and indicates a pause. See Kautsch and Cowley's *Grammar*, page 60 item 4b.
 So Ezekiel 38:3 should be read as follows: "Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the prince, {pause} chief of Meshech and Tubal:" Rosh is not Russia.

   The Hebrew word 'rosh' is translated head or chief 423 times in the Old Testament. Again, it is absolutely appalling how some scholars can equate the English cognate 'rosh' with Russia. Rosh is  not Russia. End

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Between the Ezekiel 38 and Dan 11:40 prophecies we are given a list of names of kingdoms involved with Gog in the end days war.

Meshech, Tubal, Gomer, Togarmah and Persia, which are all the lands that are north of the Magog.
Edom, and Moab, Ammon (Jordan), Egypt, Libya, Ethiopia, Dedan and Sheba (Arabia), Which are all the kingdoms south of Magog.
And of course Magog.

This leaves a BIG HOLE in our map. One missing kingdom that is located between these Northern and Southern kingdoms that isn't mentioned in these prophecies, and that is the empire of both Assyria/Babylon.

This is because the Assyrian/Babylonian kingdom is being called by another name, Ma-gog.
This map shows the old biblical names and the locations from both prophecies.

                                                                      Gog Map
 

All of the Names and places listed above are Muslim countries today and so we can expect the Gog war to be a Muslim war against Israel.  I believe this will evolve into a world war and will only be brought to end by Jesus at His return, as shown by the end of both wars, the Gog chap 39 and the king of the North war by chap 12:1 with the resurrection of the dead.
 
 
 

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The word Magog means;

 04031 Magowg {maw-gogue'}

                 from 01463; TWOT 324a;

                 AV - Magog 4; 4

                 Magog = "land of Gog"
                 n pr m
                 1) the 2nd son of Japheth, grandson of Noah, and progenitor of
                 several tribes northward from Israel

Tracing the land of Magog is very interesting.  The original land, which is what I believe the Lord is referring to concerning the Gog war of Eze 38, was located in upper Syria. they then migrated to Turkey and from there migrated northward between the Baltic and Caspian Seas.

This map of the table of Nations made in 1624 seems to do a very decent job of tracing the Tribes of Japheth over the years.

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Click map for full version or go here to view close ups of this map

As you know there are many maps that only show Magog in Turkey or in Southern Russia but there is evidence to support this map as to the original land of Magog being in Syria.

Magog is associated with the name  Hierapolis. With the migration of peoples, whether in the Middle East or Europe or the United states we see that when they migrate to a new land they call the new villages or towns by the same names.  So many cities in the US, for example have the same name from East to West.  Apparently that was the case for Magog.

 The city of Hierapolisin western Turkey has been traced to Magog and so also with the city of  Hierapolisin in Syria was called by the Syrians Magog;  This city is now called Manbij or Hierapolis Bambyce, an ancient city in the Aleppo Governorate, Syria.

The CRADLE of MAGOG is located in the NORHERN SYRIAN city of Hierapolis Bambyce
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manbij
The place first appears in Greek as Bambyce, but Pliny (v. 23) tells us its Syrian name was Mabog (also Mabbog, Mabbogh). It was doubtless an ancient Commagenian sanctuary; but history records it first under the Seleucids, who made it the chief station on their main road between Antioch and Seleucia on the Tigris; and as a centre of the worship of the Syrian Nature Goddess, Atargatis, it became known to the Greeks as the city of the sanctuary (Ieropolis), and finally as the Holy City (Ierapolis).

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.  2001.

       (rär´t) , ancient kingdom of Armenia, centered about Lake Van in present-day E  Turkey. It was the biblical Ararat. Urartu flourished from the 13th cent. to the 7th cent. B.C., but was most powerful in the 8th cent. B.C., when it ruled over most of N Syria. The Urartians constantly fought with Assyria; Shalmaneser I, Shalmaneser III, and Sargon all attacked Urartu but never completely subdued it. In the 7th cent. B.C. repeated invasions by the Cimmerians, Scyths, and Medes finally brought about the downfall of the Urartian kingdom. Excavations, particularly at such sites as Toprak Kale and Karmir Blur, have shown that Urartu had an advanced agricultural and commercial civilization, which was largely influenced by Assyria. The use of cuneiform was also borrowed from the Assyrians. Urartian techniques of metalworking and stone masonry (especially in the construction of fortresses) was highly advanced.
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"The name was preserved in the Old Testament in the corrupt form 'Ararat,' which in the Latin version became 'Armenia.' When the Massoretic writers were vocalizing the text of  the Bible they inserted the vowel "a" into words which were unknown to them, so that  'Urartu' became 'Ararat'; and it is only within very recent years that the Qumran scrolls have yielded a form of the name with the semi-vowel "w" in the first syllable (21)."

Ararat: sacred land or high land, the name of a country  on one of the mountains of which the ark rested after  the Biblical Flood subsided. The mountains mentioned were probably the Kurdish range of South Armenia. The  word is rendered Armenia in the Authorized Version but  in the Revised Version Land of Ararat. In Jeremiah  51:27 the name denotes the central or southern portion  of Armenia. It is however generally applied to a high  and almost inaccessible mountain which rises
 majestically from the plain of the Araxes (Aras River).

             Two Old Testament references to Urartians are described by Professor Petrovskii as follows:

                  "A passage in the Book of Jeremiah dated to the fourth year of the reign of King Zedekiah
                  (i.e., 594 B.C.) talks of calling together against Babylon the Medes, the Urartians
                  ('Ararat'), the Mannaeans ('Minni') and the Scythians ('Aschenaz') (22)."

             And

                  "The Old Testament preserves a recollection ... that Sennocherib's sons, having killed
                 their father, fled to Urartu (the 'land of Ararat' or 'land of Armenia') (23)."

Today, almost any Bible atlas includes Urartu on its maps of the ancient world and explains that Ararat in the Bible really refers to Urartu

             Professor Seton Lloyd, another researcher into Urartu, has this to say about the ancient civilization:

                  "Urartu is now being presented to us as a nation--and in its time a very great
                  nation-whose history and even identity seem to have been completely expunged from the
                  records of human memory for two-and-a-half thousand years. Yet today, everything about
                  it--its racial characteristics, political and economic history and its art--constitute it one
                  of the most intriguing problems in Near Eastern Archaeology (24)."

             It is generally agreed that the Urartians arose from the Hurrians and employed a language similar to Hurrian. These mountaineers built great fortresses on overlooks throughout the  highlands of Urartu. Their kingdom supported huge building programs. Palace remains show evidence of economic might. Much of their art has been recovered, particularly works in bronze.

This persistent portrayal of the tree of life with its guarding celestial beings pervaded the Urartian culture.

Extreme stylization of tree indicates that tradition was already ancient. (Urartian, detail of bronze helmet of King Sarduri II, 760-743 B.C. Hermitage Museum, Leningrad).

The Urartians were formidable in war. The Assyrians mounted attacks on Urartian fortresses, but there were periods when they were careful to cultivate the good will of these mountain dwellers. In 714 B.C., for example, Sargon, at the head of his Assyrian army, sacked some Urartian strongholds; but in 654 B.C., the later Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, at the celebration of his victory over King Teuman of Elam and capture of Susa, received emissaries from Urartu's King Rusa. According to Assyrian annals recording the event,

 "Rusa, king of Urartu, heard of the mightiness of my gods and was overcome by terror at my majesty. Then he sent his princes to Arbela to bring me greetings (32)."

  In 590 B.C., Urartu was sacked and burned. Only hulks remained. The dust and winds of  time did their work. It was not until about a hundred years ago that researchers began to connect the ruins throughout the Anatolian highlands with the vague references to Urartu in the Assyrian records; it had previously been believed that they were Assyrian (33). Not until 1936 was the first systematic excavation of a major Urartian fortress begun (34).

 After the disappearance of Urartu as a political entity, the Armenians dominated the ancient  highlands, absorbing portions of the previous Urartian culture in the process. More recently  the Armenians, like their Urartian predecessors, have met tragic and depopulating devastation in these ancestral homelands. The hand of fate seems not yet to have completed  its drama of violent readjustment in the Anatolian highlands.

The Bible's account of Noah, the ark, and the Genesis flood states that the ark came to rest on the "mountains of rrt" where "rrt" has been translated "Urartu" or later "Ararat" during Armenian times. At the beginning of the Christian era, Ararat (another version of the Hebrew "rrt" - no vowels in the Masoretic Hebrew text of Genesis") was only a northerly subdivision of Armenia near the Araxes river. During the time of the Old Testament though, the Urartian region was much more extensive (as shown on the map above). From Assyrian texts, Urartu is known to have existed from about the late 13th century BC to the 9th century BC as a loose federation of tribes. However, if one takes a conservative view of Moses writing Genesis in the 15th century BC rather than the 13th century BC, then Urartu would have been known even in that era.

The Urartian Kingdom existed from the 9th century BC until the 6th century BC when it was destroyed by the Medes and vanished from history, only to be rediscovered in the archaeology of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Thus there exists the possibility of a mis-interpretation of Genesis by post-Christian writers and Armenians restricting the Ark's landfall to the smaller Araxes valley area including Mount Ararat rather than the larger Urartian region or "mountains of Urartu" as described by Moses in Genesis. However, some of this is speculation since there are no cross-references in 15th century BC writing so no one really knows exactly where Moses was referring to when he stated that the ark came to rest on the "mountains of rrt".
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Next we read of Abram migrating from Haran;

• Harran; Hebrew Haran; (Strong's 02039) name of the place to which Abraham migrated from;

• Ur of the Chaldees and where the descendants of Abraham's brother Nahor established themselves; probably located in Mesopotamia, in Padanaram, the cultivated district at the foot of the hills between the Khabour and the Euphrates below Mount Masius

The evidence shows that their homeland included the area of south central Turkey because inscriptions have been found which tell that both Nebuchadnezzar (2nd king of the Chaldean empire) and Nabonidus (last king of the empire whose son, Belshazzar, was co-regent in Babylon) built temples to "Sin", the moon-god in HARRAN.   Inscriptions also show that Nabonidus and his mother were both FROM Harran. The term "Chaldees"- the Urartuans or those from the greater Ararat region, called their collection of gods "khaldis" and their supreme god Khaldi.

"Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor, the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, (Luke 3:34)
"When Terah had lived seventy years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran."

  Archaeologists have found that most of the names of his ancestors of his genealogy were names of cities.  These names are present  in southern Turkey.

Abram's kin settled in Syrio-Mesopotamia region between the upper Euphrates and Habur rivers near Urfa Haran (Gen 11:31),
 Abram (Old Assyrian text Abrum) whose father was  Terah, (Til-Sa-Turahi, "Mound of Terah," Neo-Assyrian text), grandfather Nahor,  as is his brother, whose name is from Old Assyrian and Old Babylonian texts Til-Nakhiri (the "Mound of Nahor", Neo-Assyrian text) and great-grandfather Serug, Sarugi, Neo-Assyrian text) . Peleg recalls later Paliga on the Euphrates just above the mouth of the Habur.
These are place-names referring to sites in the plain of Harran.
This area during Genesis was identified as Aramean by the terms Aram-Naharaim [(Final Mem Yod  Resh He Nun Final Mem Resh Aleph Lamed Aleph) literally "Aram of the two rivers, (Shinar)."

Over a 1000 years after the tower of Babel was built near Ur (Urfa) we can see (on the map above) the Chaldeans have moved south along the rivers into the place they called Babylon. They also named a city that they built there UR.

So to sum up, The families of Noah migrated, first traveling from the east toward the west following the river through the mountains until they came to a huge open plain they named Shinar, meaning land between the two rivers, (The Plain of Harran). They settled in the plain (area in Yellow) in southeast corner of Turkey and northern Syria. Then the generations began to migrate down the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers. Asshur built the cities of Assyria, Nineveh  and other cities (Iraq). God uses these ancient names to identify the original lands of these peoples, not where they migrated to over a long period of time, but where they first settled and land of Gog is a small section of those lands. Where exactly nobody knows for sure.

    Quote:  To comprehend events of the past, it helps to place ourselves in their "shoes". For a moment, let's consider a town where suddenly many, many different languages are being spoken. In the confusion, what would you do? First of all, everyone would find those who speak their own language. Then, decisions would have to be made about what to do next. If you've ever been to a foreign country where you don't speak the language, you'll realize that it would be almost impossible to live side by side and continue building, planting, harvesting, etc. with those whom you can't communicate with. Especially back then when there were no translators.

     The first order of business would most likely be to find a separate place to live. You'd need room to raise crops: fields for your flocks; and room to begin to build a permanent settlement. Some language groups may set out and settle 25 miles from the original town while others would have to travel 100 or even more before they could find a suitable location. As time passed, the land nearby would already be taken and new groups would have to travel further and further away to find a suitable location. Some would perhaps be more ambitious and travel much, much further- perhaps 1,000 miles away. But as with all things, there would remain remnants of many, many of the original language groups in the general area.

     And today, nowhere else on earth can you find so many different tongues being spoken in such a small area: "Many ancient races and tribes still inhabit the Caucasus [the mountains above Noah's Ark which form the northern barrier of the Araxes plain] and the Armenian plateau of eastern Anatolia. As many as fifty different languages and dialects are spoken in this vast and, in parts, inaccessible region." (LW, p. 137). " Strabo informs us (Book XI, 5), that no less than seventy Dialects were spoken in the country, which even then was called the Mountain of Languages" (LH, col. VIII, p. 6,743.) The further one travels from this area, the fewer languages we find being spoken in an area (with the exception of cases of immigration, such as in the US.) This evidence alone is sufficient to show where the languages began.
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I also researched sites on the study of languages and it is agreed that this is the area below where the ark came to rest is  where the different languages began and spread outward into the world.  So the tower of Babel was built in southern Turkey between the two rivers in the plain of Shinar.
 
 

Muslims, which are over 1 billion strong of a world population of 6 billion, has two main branches, they are called: Shi'ite and Sunni

This split  began after Mohammed's death Abu Bakr became the first Caliph, but lived only twenty-seven months after Mohammed's death.  During the Caliphate of  Bakr, 'Omar was his closest assistant and adviser and it was decided that Omar would be the next caliphate.  During Omar's reign Islam captured Arabia, the old Babylon area, and then built the Muslim city of Baghdad.  They also captured Persia (Iran) and Egypt and of course Israel (Palestine) in 637 AD.

The third Caliph was Uthman. Under his rule Islam captured countries west to Morocco, in the east to Afghanistan, and in the north to Armenia and Azerbaijan.

At his death Ali, the husband of  Fatima, youngest daughter of Mohammed became Caliph.  Now this is where the division in the religion takes place. A fight began when it was demanded that Ali avenge the death of the former Caliph and Ali refused. War broke out and a fanatical group called Kharijites,  said that Ali was not the rightful Caliph and assassins were sent out to kill Ali and also the governor of Syria.  One succeeded by killing Ali. The governor of Syria became Caliph in his place.  They Syrian caliph's were called Umayyad, which was followed by the dynasty of the Sunni Abbasids in Baghdad.   But they were not recognized as being legitimate by many in the muslim world who were calling themselves Shiite.  They were being lead by a holy man named Iman al-Mahdi who claimed to be a descendant of the prophet's daughter (Fatima [RAA]). Hence, their followers addressed them with the title Fatimiyyin (Shiite). The dynasty and its ministers adhered to an extreme form of Shiism, while the majority of the population they governed adhered to Sunni Islam. The Imam, al-Mahdi and the Dai Abu Abdullah al-Shii , along with their men, traveled to Raqqada, where the Fatimid Caliphate was established and Imam al-Mahdi was proclaimed as the first Fatimid Caliph.  They appointed themselves as the Caliphs over all Moslems in a challenge to the Sunni Abbasids.

After having established the Fatimid Caliphate at Raqqada, Imam al-Mahdi began to build his Empire. He brought the Island of Sicily under his control and founded new towns Mehdiya and Muhammadiya. All this was in preparation for his final move, the invasion of Egypt in 969 AD. Once established there, Muslims then had two opposing rulers over all Islam, Shi'it in south, Egypt, with the capital city named Ciro,  and Sunni in the North.

The Fatimid (Shii) forces of al-Mu'iz in Egypt marched further northwards and conquered Palestine, the southern part of Syria and western Arabia. But it wasn't long before they returned to Sunni rule and the Shii rule became confined to Egypt. Today Egypt is also mostly Suuni.
 

There is the picture of the two legs of Nebuchadnezzar's dream of the statue (Dan 2:24-35) representing what the last days revived empire that will try to destroy Israel and take over the world will be like.
In Nebuchadnezzar's dream the belly and two thighs were symbolic of the Grecian Empire under Alexander the Great as represented by the belly, but the two thighs were the two most powerful of the four kingdoms within the Grecian Empire that took over after his death.

 Islam, which I believe will become a revived empire in the end days, has two legs, caused by two main sects of belief   The feet of the statue were made of iron and baked clay which shows great weakness.  These sects are the weakness of the Islamic empire.
 

Many Muslim countries are a mixture of both Sunni and Shi'it, although they are still very seperated in there beliefs. We can see this clearly today in Iraq; The middle strip of Iraq containing Baghdad is mostly Sunni and the southern section of Iraq are mostly Shi'it.

Sunni Islam should be understood as an umbrella identity, grouping close to 90% of the approximately one billion Muslims, stretching geographically from the Indonesian islands to the African steppes, through the Indian subcontinent, central Asia, and the Arab world.  Nations with Sunni majority include Egypt, Saudi Arabia and most other Arab nations, as well as non-Arab Turkey and Afghanistan. Most Palestinian Muslims are Sunni.
 

Shiite are the second-largest sect and  is approxamately 10%  of the worldwide Muslim population.  Iran is the only nation with an overwhelming Shiite majority. Iraq, Lebanon and Bahrain also have large Shiite communities.
The majority of the Shiites today are "Twelve-Imam Shiites",  and can also be found living in Egypt, Iran, Southern Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, India, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, United Arab Emirates, and Pakistan. Others shiites are Zaydis (in Yemen), and the Ismailis (in India, Pakistan, Syria, and Yemen).

Countries mentioned in above prophecies
Egypt- 94% Muslim (mostly Suuni)
Ethiopia-40% Muslim/ Sudan- Muslim 70% (Sunni)
Iran- Muslim (95% Shi'ite Muslim,  4% Sunni Muslim)
Iraq -Muslim (Sunni and Shi'ite)
Jordan- 92% Muslim (Sunni)
Libya-Muslim, (mostly Sunni)
Syria-   90% Muslim (74% Suuni)
Saudi Arabia- 100% Muslim (mostly Suuni)
Turkey- 98% (mostly Sunni)

The terrorist group Al-Qaeda have cells throughtout these nations and are 100% Sunni, but under strick sharia laws which govern their political, social, and religous beliefs. .

There is only one thing that units these two sects and that is their hatred of the Jews.  They all want Israel to disappear.
 
 

World Map-Muslim Populations Around the World

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Sunni-Shi'it populations within Muslim Countries

List of countries with 40% to 100% Islamic (Muslim) population
1. Afghanistan -Muslim (Sunni, 84%; Shi'ite, 15%)
2. Albania-70% Muslim
3. Algeria- 99% Muslim (Sunni)
4. Azerbaijan- 87%  Muslim (Shiite)
5. Bahrain- Muslim (largely Shiite)
6. Bangladesh-83% Muslim
7. Bosnia and Herzegovina-Slavic -44% Muslim
8. Brunei Darussalam- 67% Muslim
9. Burkina Faso-  50% Muslim
10. Chad-Islam, 44%  Muslim
11. Djibouti-  94% Muslim
12. Egypt- 94% Muslim (mostly Suuni)
13. Ethiopia-40% Muslim
14. Gambia-  90% Muslim
15. Guinea-85% Muslim
16.Guinea-Bissau-65% Muslim
17. Indonesia, 87% Muslim
18. Iran- Muslim (95% Shi'ite Muslim,  4% Sunni Muslim)
19. Iraq -Muslim (Sunni and 60% Shi'ite)
20. Jordan- 92% Muslim
21. Kazakhstan- 47% Muslim
22. Kuwait- 85%  Muslim (Shi'ite 30%, Sunni 45%)
23. Kyrgyzstan-Muslim,  (Sunni 75%)
24. Lebanon-60% Muslim (largely Shiite)
25. Libya-Muslim, (mostly Sunni)
26. Malaysia- Malays -100% Muslim
27. Maldives- (Sunni Muslim)
28. Mali-90% Muslim
29. Mauritania- Muslim
30. Morocco- 98.7% Muslim
31. Niger- 80% Muslim
32. Nigeria- 50% Muslim
33. Oman-95% Muslim
34. Pakistan-  97% Muslim
35. Palestinian State-West Bank: 75% Muslim (mostly Sunni)
Russian Republics located in the SE part of Russia,
        36. Chechnya, Ingush (Sunni Muslim)
        37. Bashkortostan. (Bashkir s 21%, a  mixture of Finno-Ugric, Turkic, and Mongolian tribes, are a Muslim people)
        38. Dagestan, mostly muslim
        39. The Kabardino-Balkar Republic 57% (Sunni Muslim)
        40. Karachevo-Cherkess Republic the Karachay-31% Muslims.
        41. The Tartar Autonomus Republic -They number about 5.5 million and are (largely Sunni Muslims)

42. Qatar-  95% Muslim
43. Saudi Arabia- 100% Muslim (Mostly Suuni)
44. Senegal-  92% Muslim
45. Sierra Leone- 40% Muslim
46. Somalia- Muslim (Sunni)
47. Sudan- Muslim 70% (Sunni)
48. Syria-   90% Muslim (74% Suuni)
49. Tajikistan-80% (Sunni Muslim),
50. Tunisia-98% (Sunni),
51. Turkey- 98% (mostly Sunni)
52. Turkmenistan-89% (Suuni Muslim) ,
53. United Arab Emirates-Muslim (Sunni 80%, Shi'ite 16%)
54. Uzbekistan-Muslim 88% (mostly Sunnis),
55. Western Sahara-Muslim
56. Republic of Yemen-Muslim (Sunni and Shi'ite)

Sunni 90%-Shi'it 10%