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The North German Plain or Northern Lowland [1] (German: Norddeutsches Tiefland) is one of the major geographical regions of Germany. It is the German part of the North European Plain . The region is bounded by the coasts of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea to the north, Germany's Central Uplands ( die Mittelgebirge ) to the south, by the ...
In present-day Germany, the former eastern territories of Germany (German: ehemalige deutsche Ostgebiete) refer to those territories east of the current eastern border of Germany, i.e. the Oder–Neisse line, which historically had been considered German and which were annexed by Poland and the Soviet Union after World War II.
In this list, only the cities' and towns' names are given. For more restricted lists with more details, see: List of cities in Germany by population (only Großstädte, i.e. cities over 100,000 population) Metropolitan regions in Germany; Numbers of cities and towns in the German states: Bavaria: 317 cities and towns
The administrative divisions of the German Democratic Republic (commonly referred to as East Germany) were constituted in two different forms during the country's history. The GDR first retained the traditional German division into federated states called Länder , but in 1952 they were replaced with districts called Bezirke .
Eastern Europe after 1945 usually meant all the European countries liberated from Nazi Germany and then occupied by the Soviet army. It included the German Democratic Republic (also known as East Germany), formed by the Soviet occupation zone of Germany. All the countries in Eastern Europe adopted communist modes of control by 1948.
Germany has the second-most borders of any European country, after Russia. It shares borders with nine countries: Denmark in the north, Poland and the Czech Republic in the east, Switzerland (its only non-EU neighbor) and Austria in the south, France in the southwest and Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands in the west.
An enlargeable topographic map of Germany. Geography of Germany is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
City/Town District (Kreis) Pop. in 1939 Current Name Current Administrative Unit Allenburg: Landkreis Wehlau: 2 694: Druzhba: Kaliningrad Oblast Allenstein: Landkreis Allenstein: 50 396: Olsztyn: Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship Angerburg: Landkreis Angerburg: 10 922: Węgorzewo : Warmia-Masuria Arys: Landkreis Johannisburg: 3 553: Orzysz: Warmia ...