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The following is a list of the countries and territories where German is an official language (also known as the Germanosphere).It includes countries that have German as (one of) their nationwide official language(s), as well as dependent territories with German as a co-official language.
The Federal Republic of Germany is a federation and consists of sixteen partly sovereign states. [a] Of the sixteen states, thirteen are so-called area-states ('Flächenländer'); in these, below the level of the state government, there is a division into local authorities (counties and county-level cities) that have their own administration.
There are many widely varying names of Germany in different languages, more so than for any other European nation. For example: the German language endonym is Deutschland, from the Old High German diutisc
The charts below show the way International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Standard German language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
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General map of Germany Population density in 2022. As defined by the German Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development, a Großstadt (large city) is a city with more than 100,000 inhabitants. [1]
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.
Man speaking German. German (Deutsch, pronounced ⓘ) [10] is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe.It is the most spoken native language within the European Union.