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Germany, German Demorcratic Republic location map w·o FRG July 1952 - October 1990.svg Module:Location map/data/GDR is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of German Democratic Republic .
Germany, German Demorcratic Republic location map w·o FRG July 1952 - October 1990.svg Module:Location map/data/GDR is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of German Democratic Republic .
The official name was Deutsche Demokratische Republik ('German Democratic Republic'), usually abbreviated to DDR (GDR). Both terms were used in East Germany, with increasing usage of the abbreviated form, especially since East Germany considered West Germans and West Berliners to be foreigners following the promulgation of its second constitution in 1968.
A united German state government existed in the city until it broke apart in 1948. After 1949, both West Berlin and East Berlin (officially only called Berlin) were in effect incorporated into the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, respectively, despite not legally being part of these countries.
Between lie the forested uplands of central Germany and the low-lying lands of northern Germany (lowest point: Neuendorf-Sachsenbande at 3.54 metres (11.6 ft) below sea level), traversed by some of Europe's major rivers such as the Rhine, Danube and Elbe. [4] Germany has the second-most borders of any European country, after Russia.
The German Democratic Republic (GDR), German: Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR), often known in English as East Germany, existed from 1949 to 1990. [1] It covered the area of the present-day German states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern , Brandenburg , Berlin (excluding West Berlin ), Sachsen , Sachsen-Anhalt , and Thüringen .
When the German Democratic Republic was established in 1949, it immediately claimed East Berlin as its capital—a claim that was recognized by all communist countries. Nevertheless, East Berlin's representatives to the Volkskammer were not directly elected and did not have full voting rights until 1981. [2]
The Bezirk Dresden was the easternmost Bezirk of East Germany. It, bordered on the 'Bezirke' of Cottbus , Leipzig and Karl-Marx-Stadt , as well as on Czechoslovakia and Poland . It was broadly similar in area to the later Direktionsbezirk Dresden , which functioned from 1990 to 2012.