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Germany (German: Deutschland, pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃlant] ), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a country in the western region of Central Europe. The country's full name is sometimes shortened to the FRG (or the BRD , in German).
The Germanic peoples were historical groups of people that once occupied Northwestern and Central Europe and Scandinavia during antiquity and into the early Middle Ages.
History of Germany - Wikipedia. Contents. hide. (Top) Prehistory. Early history: Germanic tribes, Roman conquests, and the Migration Period. Middle Ages. Early modern Germany. 1648–1815. 1815–1871. German Empire, 1871–1918. Weimar Republic, 1919–1933. Nazi Germany, 1933–1945. Germany during the Cold War, 1945–1990.
Germans ( German: Deutsche, pronounced [ ˈdɔʏtʃə] ⓘ) are the natives or inhabitants of Germany, or sometimes more broadly any people who are of German descent or native speakers of the German language. The constitution of Germany, implemented in 1949 following the end of World War II, defines a German as a German citizen.
There are about 100 million Germans in the world. Most Germans speak the German language ( Hochdeutsch is Standard German) and dialects such as Low German and Upper German. Most people in Switzerland and Austria are native speakers of the German language.
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in the western region of Central Europe. It is the second-most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south.
German ( Standard High German: Deutsch, pronounced [dɔʏtʃ] ⓘ) [10] is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.
