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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 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").
The culture of Germany has been shaped by major intellectual and popular currents in Europe, both religious and secular. German culture originated with the Germanic tribes, the earliest evidence of Germanic culture dates to the Jastorf culture in Northern Germany and Denmark.
Three-lane autobahn An airport taxiway crossing the Bundesautobahn 14. Germany has approximately 650,000 km of roads, [4] of which 231,000 km are non-local roads. [5] The road network is extensively used with nearly 2 trillion km travelled by car in 2005, in comparison to just 70 billion km travelled by rail and 35 billion km travelled by plane.
The Kromlau Azalea and Rhododendron Park (German: Azaleen- und Rhododendronpark Kromlau; Upper Sorbian: Acalejowy a Rododendronowy Park Kromola) is an 80-hectare (200-acre) landscaped park in the village of Kromlau (Upper Sorbian: Kromola), in the municipality of Gablenz (Jabłońc) in the region of Lusatia (Upper Lusatia), in the very east of the German state of Saxony, close to the border ...
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.