Lutheranism by region

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Lutheranism is present on all inhabited continents with an estimated 110 million adherents out of which 74.2 million are affiliated with the Lutheran World Federation. As a major movement that first began the Reformation, it constitutes one of the largest Protestant branches claiming around 110 million out of 920 million Protestants. The Lutheran World Federation brings together the majority of Lutherans. Apart from it, there are also other organizations such as the International Lutheran Council and the Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference, as well as multiple independent Lutheran denominations. Today, almost half of Lutherans are living in Europe. Germany accounts for one-third of European Lutherans and one-eighth of the world's Lutheran population. Most of the remaining European Lutherans are confined to the Lutheran-majority Nordic countries and to a lesser extent the Central European countries of Hungary, Slovakia, Romania (notably Transylvania) Austria, Czechia and Slovenia...

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