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1 day ago · A physical map of Germany Germany is the seventh-largest country in Europe; [4] bordering Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria to the southeast, and Switzerland to the south-southwest.
18 hours ago · Germany, country of north-central Europe. Although Germany existed as a loose polity of Germanic-speaking peoples for millennia, a united German nation in roughly its present form dates only to 1871. Modern Germany is a liberal democracy that has become ever more integrated with and central to a united Europe.
6 days ago · History of Germany, a survey of important events and people in the history of Germany from ancient times to the present. Germanic peoples occupied much of the present-day territory of Germany in ancient times.
4 days ago · Berlin, capital and chief urban centre of Germany. The city lies at the heart of the North German Plain, athwart an east-west commercial and geographic axis that helped make it the capital of the kingdom of Prussia and then, from 1871, of a unified Germany.
1 day ago · The demography of Germany is monitored by the Statistisches Bundesamt (Federal Statistical Office of Germany). According to the most recent data, Germany's population is 84,607,016 (30 September 2023) making it the most populous country in the European Union and the nineteenth-most populous country in the world.
3 days ago · List of cities and towns in Germany. Map of Germany. Complete list of 2,073 cities in Germany (as of September 1, 2005) Only municipalities with independent administration and that have the Stadtrecht (city rights) are included.
May 22, 2024 · Environment - current issues. emissions from coal-burning utilities and industries contribute to air pollution; acid rain, resulting from sulfur dioxide emissions, is damaging forests; pollution in the Baltic Sea from raw sewage and industrial effluents from rivers in eastern Germany; hazardous waste disposal; government established a mechanism for ending the use of nuclear power by 2022 ...
