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Germany (German: Deutschland, pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃlant] ), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a country in Central Europe. The country's full name is sometimes shortened to the FRG (or the BRD, in German). To the north of Germany are the North and Baltic Seas, and the kingdom of Denmark.

The German Revolution of 1918–19 put an end to the federal constitutional monarchy, which resulted in the establishment of the Weimar Republic, an unstable parliamentary democracy. In the early 1930s, the worldwide Great Depression hit Germany hard, as unemployment soared and people lost confidence in the government.

The German Wikipedia (German: Deutschsprachige Wikipedia) is the German-language edition of Wikipedia, a free and publicly editable online encyclopedia.. Founded on March 16, 2001, it is the second-oldest Wikipedia (after the English Wikipedia), and with 2,615,265 articles, at present (2019) the fourth-largest edition of Wikipedia by number of articles, behind English Wikipedia and the mostly ...

Germany was known as the Weimar Republic during the years 1919 to 1933. It was a republic with a semi-presidential system.

Germany exited the recession in the second and third quarters of 2009, mostly due to rebounding manufacturing orders and exports - primarily from outside the Euro Zone - and relatively steady consumer demand. Germany is a founding member of the EU, the G8 and the G20, and was the world's largest exporter from 2003 to 2008.