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SPEAKING IN TONGUES Number of native speakers (in millions) Mandarin Chinese 845 Spanish 329 English 328 Arabic 221 Hindi 182 Bengali 181 Portuguese 178 Russian 144 Japanese 122 German 90 SOURCE: ETHNOLOGUE: LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD, 2009 Note: Table made from bar graph. SO MANY FRIENDS Countries with the most Facebook users (in millions) 1. United States 138.7 2. United Kingdom 27.3 3. Indonesia 26.9 4. Turkey 22.7 5. France 18.9 6. Canada 17.1 7. Italy 16.6 8. Philippines 16.5 9. Mexico 15.1 10. India 13.6 SOURCE: FACEBAKERS.COM, 2010 RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD By percentage of global population Other 1.4% Christianity 33.3% Islam 22.3% Hinduism 13.7% Buddhism 6.8% Ethnoreligions 3.8% Nonreligious or atheist 11.4% Chinese folk religions 6.8% Sikhism 0.4% Judaism 0.2% SOURCE: BRITANNICA BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2009 Note: Table made from pie chart. BON VOYAGE! Most popular tourist...

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