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religious places of importance in the paired state and country (Germany-country)​

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Christianity is the largest religion in Germany, comprising an estimated 57% of the country's population in 2017.[1][2][3] The second largest religion in Germany is Islam, with around 4 million adherents (5% of the population), almost all of whom have full or partial foreign background.[1][2] Smaller religious groups include Buddhism (0.2%), Judaism (0.1%), Hinduism (0.1%) and others (0.4%).[1][2] About 36–37% of the country's population are not affiliated with any church or religion.[1][2]

The two largest Christian churches of the country are the Roman Catholic Church and the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), a Protestant confederation of United Protestant (Lutheran and Reformed) churches. The two churches together comprised 54% of the population in 2017, of whom 28.2%[4] belonged to the Catholic Church and 26.1%[5] to the Evangelical Church. In 2016, the Orthodox Church constituted ~2% of the population and other minor Christian churches (including Jehovah's Witnesses, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, other Protestant denominations, and others), formed 1–1.5%.[1][3]

Demographics of religion in Germany vary greatly by region and age. In a 2006 study, 28% of Germans under the age of 25 said they did not believe in God or any supernatural power.[6] Non-religious people (including atheists and agnostics) represent the majority in some of Germany's major cities, including Berlin and Hamburg, and the absolute majority of 70–80% of the population in all the eastern states of what between 1949 and 1990 used to be the German Democratic Republic;[7] by contrast, rural areas of the western states of what in the same period used to be the Federal Republic of Germany are more religious, and some rural areas are highly religious