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Last update: Friday 10th of September 2010
| Bundesrepublik Deutschland Federal Republic of Germany | |||||
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| Motto: "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit" (German) "Unity and Justice and Freedom" | |||||
| Anthem: Das Lied der Deutschen (third stanza) also called Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit | |||||
 Location of Germany (orange) – on the European continent (camel & white) | |||||
| Capital (and largest city) |  Berlin | ||||
| Official languages | German1 | ||||
| Government | Parliamentary Federal Republic | ||||
| - President | Horst Köhler | ||||
| - Chancellor | Angela Merkel (CDU) | ||||
| Formation | |||||
| - Holy Roman Empire | 8432 | ||||
| - German Confederation | June 8, 1815 | ||||
| - German Empire | January 18, 1871 | ||||
| - Federal Republic | May 23, 1949 | ||||
| - Reunification | October 3, 1990 | ||||
| Accession to EU | March 25, 1953 (West Germany) | ||||
| Area | |||||
| - Total | 357,050 km² (63rd) 137,858 sq mi | ||||
| - Water (%) | 2.416 | ||||
| Population | |||||
| - 2006 estimate | 82,310,000 (14th) | ||||
| - 2000 census | n/a | ||||
| - Density | 230.9 /km² (50th) 598.5 /sq mi | ||||
| GDP (PPP) | 2005 estimate | ||||
| - Total | $2.522 trillion (5th) | ||||
| - Per capita | $30,579 (17th) | ||||
| GDP (nominal) | 2006 estimate | ||||
| - Total | $3.045 trillion (3rd) | ||||
| - Per capita | $36,975 (19th) | ||||
| HDI (2004) |  0.932 (high) (21st) | ||||
| Currency | Euro (€)3 (EUR) | ||||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||||
| - Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||||
| Internet TLD | .de 4 | ||||
| Calling code | +49 | ||||
| 1 Danish, Low German, Sorbian, Romany and Frisian are officially recognized and protected as minority languages by the ECRML. 2 Treaty of Verdun. 3 Prior to 1999 (introduction of the euro as legal tender) and 2002 (introduction of euro notes and coins): Deutsche Mark. 4 The .eu domain is also used, as it is shared with other European Union member states. | |||||
Germany (German: Deutschland IPA: ), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland (help·info), IPA: ), is a country in Western-Central Europe. It is bordered on the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea, on the east by Poland and the Czech Republic, on the south by Austria and Switzerland, and on the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Germany is a democratic parliamentary federal republic of 16 states (Bundesländer). The country previously consisted of several sovereign states with their own history, culture, and religious affiliation. Germany was first unified as a nation-state amidst the Franco-Prussian War in 1871.
The Federal Republic of Germany is a member state of the United Nations, NATO, the G8 and the G4 nations, and is a founding member of the European Union. It has the largest population and largest economy of all EU member states. A a modern great power, Germany has the world's third largest economy (after the United States and Japan), is the world's largest exporter of goods, and the world's second largest importer of goods. Germany currently holds the rotating presidencies of both the EU and the G8.
CosmoTourist - CosmoTourist, a new travel community based in Germany, has raised angel funding from Dr. Christoph Roeck, who founded the Pangora shopping network.It’s a very simple travel guide with user ratings, reviews, profile pages, photos and Google Maps integration...
A driverless robot car with an electronic brain and laser eyes that see everywhere at once has been built in Germany to demonstrate the future of road transport - when computer-assisted cars take the steering wheel out of error-prone human hands.
For the second time in as many days, Romanian hacker Vladuz broke into eBay's system and took over an eBay employee account. He once again posted to the eBay Germany discussion boards - this time during a discussion about whether Vladuz is actually a modern day Robin Hood. This break-in occurs only one day after eBay denied Vladuz had access.
The German release of C&C 3: Tiberium Wars will not feature suicide bombers. Ridiculously over the top censorship or a necessary restriction?
This Thursday, the environment ministers from the G8, the world's biggest contributors to climate change, will be meeting in Germany. The outcome of this meeting is crucial to world's response to global warming.Avaaz will be there and this is the petition they are putting together.