Map
of Germany Background:
As Europe's largest economy and most populous nation, Germany remains
a key member of the continent's economic, political, and defense organizations.
European power struggles immersed Germany in two devastating World
Wars in the first half of the 20th century and left the country occupied
by the victorious Allied powers of the US, UK, France, and the Soviet
Union in 1945. With the advent of the Cold War, two German states
were formed in 1949: the western Federal Republic of Germany (FRG)
and the eastern German Democratic Republic (GDR). The democratic FRG
embedded itself in key Western economic and security organizations,
the EC, which became the EU, and NATO, while the Communist GDR was
on the front line of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact. The decline of the
USSR and the end of the Cold War allowed for German unification in
1990. Since then, Germany has expended considerable funds to bring
Eastern productivity and wages up to Western standards. In January
1999, Germany and 10 other EU countries introduced a common European
exchange currency, the euro.
Map
of Germany Area:
total: 357,021 sq km
land: 349,223 sq km
water: 7,798 sq km
Map of Germany Area - comparative:
slightly smaller than Montana
Map of Germany Land boundaries:
total: 3,621 km
border countries: Austria 784 km, Belgium 167 km, Czech Republic 646
km, Denmark 68 km, France 451 km, Luxembourg 138 km, Netherlands 577
km, Poland 456 km, Switzerland 334 km
Map
of Germany Population:
82,424,609 (July 2004 est.)
Map
of Germany Country name:
conventional long form: Federal Republic of Germany
conventional short form: Germany
local long form: Bundesrepublik Deutschland
local short form: Deutschland
former: German Empire, German Republic, German Reich
Map of Germany Government type:
federal republic
Map of Germany Capital:
Berlin
Currency code:
EUR
Map of Germany Exchange rates:
euros per US dollar - 0.886 (2003), 1.0626 (2002), 1.1175 (2001),
1.0854 (2000), 0.9386 (1999)
Other Usefull Sites:
http://www.germany-info.org/relaunch/index.html
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