RELIGIONS
SIKHISM
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North America
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East Asia
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Detailed explanation-1: -To start at the beginning, the founder of the Sikh tradition, Guru Nanak was born in 1469 in the Punjab region of South Asia, which is currently split between Pakistan and the northwestern area of India. A majority of the global Sikh population still resides in Punjab on the Indian side of the border.
Detailed explanation-2: -About 90.2% of the world’s Sikh population is found in India and is concentrated mainly in the East Punjab region in the Indian States of Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh as well as the Union Territories of Chandigarh, Delhi NCR and Jammu and Kashmir.
Detailed explanation-3: -Sikhs number about 26-30 million worldwide, of whom 24–28 million live in India, which thus represents around 90 percent of the total Sikh population.