10 Things You Didn # 39; KNOW About Germany
The information is provided by the Library of Congress This study attempts to review Germany and treat its dominant social, political, economic and military concise and objective manner.
The name is used in Germany in three first sense, it refers to the region in Central Europe commonly regarded as constituting Germany, even when there was no central German state, as was the case for most history of Germany; On the other hand, it refers to the unified German state established in 1871 and in force until 1945; and the third since October 3, 1990, he refers to the united Germany, formed by joining this date the German Democratic Republic GDR or East Germany to the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG Germany West the name of the Federal Republic of Germany refers to West Germany since its founding 23 May 1949 until the reunification of Germany October 3, 1990, after that date, it refers to Germany reunified for brevity and variety, the Federal Republic of Germany is often simply referred to the Federal Republic.
The Federal Republic of Germany consists of sixteen Länder states; Five of the Earth sing Laender dates from July 1990, the territory of the German Democratic Republic was again divided into Laender For this reason, during the examination of events since unification, the Germans frequently refer on the territory of the former East Germany as a new or eastern Laender and call the Western former Germany old or western Laender for the convenience and variety, text often follows this convention to distinguish east of West Germany.
Spellings of place names used herein are in most cases those approved by the US Board on Geographical Names exceptions are the use of conventional English names for some major cities, rivers and geographical regions.
Measurements are given in metric A conversion table is provided to assist readers unfamiliar with metric measurements.
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Germany facts, Germany, Federal Republic of Germany, German Democratic Republic, means reunified Germany.