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Official name Bundesrepublik Deutschland Federal Republic of Germany Form of the Federal Republic of multiparty government with two legislatures of the Bundesrat or Federal Council 69 1; German Bundestag or the Federal Assembly 631 2 Head of State President Steinmeier, Chancellor Angela Merkel head of government capital Berlin 3 Official language German official religion no euro currency population in 2016 is 81,762,000 Total area 137,879 sq mi Total area sq km urban-rural urban population 357104 2014 75 1 24 September 2014 rural life expectancy at birth Male Female 2015 2015 78 3 83 years literacy percentage of the population age 15 and older literate Man 100 Female 100 GNI per capita of the United States 2015 45790.
2 Current number of seats; legal number is 598.
3 Some ministries remain in Bonn The Federal Supreme Court meets in Karlsruhe.
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany or Bundesrepublik Deutschland Deutschland German countries of north-central Europe through major physical divisions of the continent, areas outside the Alps to the north through the varied landscape of the Central Uplands Germany and the North German Plain.
Village built along a single street Strassendorf.
One of the largest countries in Europe, Germany encompasses a variety of landscapes of high mountains, steep south; beach sand, rolling northern plains; the wooded hills of western urbanized; and plains of eastern agricultural spiritual heart of the country is the magnificent city center of Berlin, which has risen phoenixlike from the ashes of World War II and now, after decades of separation, is the capital of a Germany reunified, and the Rhine, which flows north of Switzerland and is celebrated in the visual arts, literature, folklore, and singing along its banks and its main tributaries, the main Neckar Moselle and Ruhr stand out hundreds of medieval castles, churches, picturesque villages, market towns and centers of learning and culture, including the Heidelberg site of one of Europe's oldest universities founded in 1386, and historically Mainz one of the most important publishing centers in Europe All are centrepieces of Germany's thriving tourist economy that brings millions of visitors to the country each year, attracted by its beauty é natural, history, culture and cuisine, including its renowned wines and beers.
The German name has long not describe a particular place, but the political system loose, fluid language of the Germanic peoples who ruled much of western Europe north of the Alps for millennia Although Germany is in this sense an ancient entity, the German nation in more or less its present form was born only in the 19th century, when the Prime Minister of Prussia Otto von Bismarck brought together dozens of German kingdoms, principalities, free cities, bishoprics and duchies to form the German Empire in 1871. This so-called second Reich quickly became the leading power of Europe and the colonies acquired in Africa, Asia and the Pacific this overseas empire was dismantled after the defeat of Germany in the first World war and the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II depression, widespread unemployment, and political struggles that bordered on dr ights civil war followed, which led to the collapse of the Weimar Republic and gradually rising Nazi Party under Adolf Hitler After winning power in 1933, Hitler created the Third Reich and shortly after began a ruinous crusade to conquer Europe and exterminate the Jews, Roma gypsies, homosexuals and others.
The Third Reich disintegrated in 1945 by the allied armies of the United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, France and other countries, the victorious powers divided Germany into four occupation zones and more later in two countries, the Federal Republic of West Germany Germany and the German Democratic Republic east Germany, separated for over 40 years by a long border with east Germany that limit was, until the fall of its communist government in 1989, marked by the defenses designed to prevent the escape of 185 square miles 480 square kilometers of West Berlin of the island were the same from 1961 to 1989 surrounded by the Berlin Wall running through the city and a mesh wire fence heavily guarded in areas abutting against the German campaign Although Berlin was a flash point between the United States and the Soviet Union during the cold war, the city fell in imports national and international nce 90 until 1989, when a popular and peaceful uprising toppled e e East German government and soon after restoration unified Berlin as the capital of a reunited Germany.
Overview of the decision to make Berlin Bonn rather than the reunified capital.
Since World War II, Germany has made great efforts both to honor the victims and repair the crimes of the Holocaust, providing a solid material and political support for the State of Israel and the active pursuit crimes motivated by hate and spread of neo-Nazi doctrine; it has become a problem in the 1990s with the rise in Germany anti-immigrant skinhead groups and the availability of Hitler's Mein Kampf on the Internet Obviously, modern Germany is struggling to balance its national interests with those of an influx of political and economic refugees from afar, especially in North Africa, Turkey and South Asia, an influx that has fueled ethnic tensions and the ranks of the nationalist political parties, especially in Germany the east, where unemployment is twice that of the west.
The constitution of the Republic, adopted in 1949 by West Germany, established a federal system that gives significant powers of government to its constituent states Länder before unification there were 11 western German states, including Berlin -West, who had the special status of a Land without voting rights, but with the accession of east Germany, there are now 16 states in the unified republic the largest state Bavaria's Bayern , is the richest Baden-Württemberg and is the most populous North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia.
The issues of national importance, such as defense and foreign affairs, are reserved to the federal government in both state and federal, parliamentary democracy prevails The Federal Republic is a member of the Organization of the Atlantic Treaty North of NATO since 1955 and was a founding member of the European economic Community see EU over the four decades of separation, the Federal Republic has concluded a number of agreements with the Soviet Union and East Germany East, he supported to some extent economically in exchange for various concessions regarding humanitarian issues and access to rapid economic recovery of West Berlin Germany in the 1950s Wirtschaftswunder, or economic miracle conducted in a leading position among the world economic powers, a position he maintained.
Much of the success Germany after the Second World War was the result of the famous industrious and sacrifice of its people, including the novelist Günter Grass won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999, pointed out to be a German is to make the most critical impossible possible he added.
Because, in our country everything is focused on growth We are never satisfied enough for us ever, we always want more If it is on paper, we actually convert Even in our dreams we are productive.
This dedication to work combined with a public attitude that is both reserved and affirmed produce a stereotype of German people as aloof and distant prices Yet the Germans in both their private friendships and friendly relations with its neighbors and visitors , great value on leisure and culture, and enjoy the benefits of living in a liberal democracy that has become increasingly integrated with and at the heart of a united Europe.
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For 45 years after World War II, European countries of Germany was divided into two Germany republics of the East was a communist country, while West Germany was a democracy The collapse of communism led the reunification of Germany in 1990 is the German capital Berlin.
One of the great powers of Europe and the industrial world, Germany has grown from a collection of small states, principalities and duchies of becoming a unified empire in 1871 the German Empire was strategically located between France and Russia, and the conflict with the two countries as it sought to expand its borders This conflict the First World war, when Germany defeated Germany, however, has emerged again as a major force in Europe 1930s under the leadership of dictator Adolf Hitler and German aggression set off world War II area 137.879 square miles 357,104 square kilometers of the 2016 81762000 EST population.
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