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Country Name: Germany – Federal Republic of Germany
System of government: Federal Republic
Capital: Berlin
Location: Germany shares its borders with nine countries – North: Denmark; West – The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France, South – Switzerland and Austria, East / Southeast – Poland and the Czech Republic
Official languages: German
National composition: Germans (99%)
Religions: Protestant, Roman Catholic
Currency: Deutsche Mark = 100 Pfennig
Formation:
• Holy Roman Empire: February 2, 962
• Unification: January 18, 1871
• Federal Republic: May 23, 1949
• Reunification: October 3, 1990
EU accession: March 25, 1953 (West Germany)
Area: 357,021 km² (63rd) / 137,847 sq mi
• Water (%): 2.416
Population:
• Q3 2024 estimate: 83,555,478

Other major cities: Hamburg, Munich, Cologne (Köln), Essen, Frankfurt am Main, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Leipzig, Dresden, Karl Marx Stadt, Magdeburg, Rostock, Halle, Erfurt, Potsdam
Highest elevation: Zugspitze (2,963 m) in the Alps, Fichtelberg (1,204 m) in the Ore Mountains (Erzgebirge)
Chief rivers: Rhine (Rhein), Danube (Donau), Ems, Weser, Elbe and its tributaries; Oder
Climate: Temperate on the northern coast, becoming increasingly continental toward the south; precipitation decreases eastward

Motto: Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit (German for “Unity and Justice and Freedom”)
Anthem: Das Lied der Deutschen (3rd stanza)

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Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, a country in Central Europe, is a modern great power, the world’s third largest economy, and the world’s largest exporter of goods.

Germany is a democratic parliamentary federal republic, historically consisting of several sovereign states with their own history, distinct German tribe dialects, culture, and religious beliefs. Germany was unified as a nation state amidst the Franco-Prussian War in 1871.

Known as a land of poets and thinkers, Germany has occupied a central position in the history of western civilization, as the location of the Holy Roman Empire, and the Protestant Reformation. The nation has emerged from the devastation of the great wars of the twentieth century, and division into free-world and communist-world territories, to become the European Union’s most populous and most economically powerful member state.

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