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Germany (78.3%) Austria (8.4%) Switzerland (5.6%) Brazil (3.2%) Italy (0.4%) Others (4.1%) The following is a list of the countries and territories where German is an official language (also known as the Germanosphere). It includes countries that have German as (one of) their nationwide official language (s), as well as dependent territories ...
Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. Categories: Countries and territories by official language. Geographical distribution of the German language. German as an official language.
The Federal Republic of Germany, as a federal state, consists of sixteen states. [a] Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen (with its seaport exclave, Bremerhaven) are called Stadtstaaten ("city-states"), while the other thirteen states are called Flächenländer ("area states") and include Bavaria, Saxony, and Thuringia, which describe themselves as Freistaaten ("free states").
These were German colonies established in the Pacific: German New Guinea, 1884–1919. Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, 1885–1914. Bismarck Archipelago, 1885–1914. German Solomon Islands Protectorate, 1885–1914. Bougainville Island, 1885–1914. Buka Island, 1885–1914. Choiseul Island, 1885–1900. Shortland Islands, 1885–1900.
Saxe-Meiningen, and Saxe-Altenburg in 1826. Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg) Gotha. Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld) Coburg. Saxe-Hildburghausen (Sachsen-Hildburghausen) Hildburghausen. In 1864, Austria and Prussia together became the new sovereign of Holstein (a member of the confederation) and Schleswig (outside ...
Germany, [e] officially the Federal Republic of Germany, [f] is a country in Central Europe.It lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen constituent states have a total population of over 82 million in an area of 357,596 km 2 (138,069 sq mi), making it the most populous member state of the European Union.
The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people [nb 1] mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania, and Southern Africa. The most widely spoken Germanic language, English, is also the world's most widely spoken language with an estimated 2 billion speakers.
General map of Germany. This is a complete list of the 2,056 cities and towns in Germany (as of 1 January 2024). [1] [2] There is no distinction between town and city in Germany; a Stadt is an independent municipality (see Municipalities of Germany) that has been given the right to use that title.