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Germany (German: Deutschland) is a country in Central and Western Europe [3] that stretches from the Alps, across the North European Plain to the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. It is the second-most populous country in Europe after Russia , and is seventh-largest country by area in the continent.
English: Map of the results of the 2021 German federal election. The large map of Germany shows the winning vote strength in the country's 299 single-member constituencies. The map on the right shows the number of List Seat candidates elected by state. Each of the single-member constituencies are labelled on the left-hand side of the image.
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With German reunification, East Germany was dissolved on 3 October 1990. [4] Germany has 54 sites on the list, with a further seven on the tentative list. The first site listed was the Aachen Cathedral in 1978. The most recent addition took place in 2024. [3] Three sites are natural and 51 are listed for their cultural significance.
4 January – The COVID-19 lockdown is extended until 31 January. [1] [2]15/16 January – January 2021 Christian Democratic Union of Germany leadership election 4 March – most of Germany's major media outlets reports that the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) had placed Alternative for Germany AfD under surveillance as a suspected extremist group.
Germany uses the mixed-member proportional representation system, a system of proportional representation combined with elements of first-past-the-post voting.The Bundestag has 598 nominal members, elected for a four-year term; these seats are distributed between the sixteen German states in proportion to the states' number of eligible voters.
Mercator's 1569 map was a large planisphere, [3] i.e. a projection of the spherical Earth onto the plane. It was printed in eighteen separate sheets from copper plates engraved by Mercator himself. [4]