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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.
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.
Prior to 1871, Germany was not a unified nation-state, and had no capital city.The medieval German Holy Roman Empire used to have Aachen as its preferred seat of government during Charlemagne's reign, and until 1531 it was the place where 31 Holy Roman Emperors were crowned Kings of the Germans.
Rank Name Image City Height (m) Height (ft) Floors Year Notes 1: Commerzbank Tower: Frankfurt: 259: 850: 56: 1997: Tallest building in Europe from 1997 to 2003; tallest building in the European Union from 1997 to 2011, and from 2020 to 2022; headquarters of Commerzbank; reaches a total height of 300.1 metres including the antenna [1]
Map of the Middle Rhine Valley. The Rhine Gorge is a popular name for the Upper Middle Rhine Valley, a 65 km (40 mi) section of the Rhine between Koblenz and Rüdesheim in the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse in Germany.
Bavaria, [a] officially the Free State of Bavaria, [b] is a state in the southeast of Germany.With an area of 70,550.19 km 2 (27,239.58 sq mi), it is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total land area of Germany, and with over 13.08 million inhabitants, it is the second most populous German state, behind only North Rhine-Westphalia; however, due to its ...
The Bonn–Oberkassel dog was a Late Paleolithic (c. 12,000 BCE) dog whose partial skeletal remains were found buried alongside two humans in Bonn, Germany.Initially identified as a wolf upon its discovery in 1914, its remains were separated and lost within the University of Bonn's collections.
Berlin (/ b ɜːr ˈ l ɪ n /, bur-LIN; German: [bɛʁˈliːn] ⓘ) [10] is the capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and population. [11] With over 3.85 million inhabitants, [12] it has the highest population within its city limits of any city in the European Union.