Territorial organization
Germany
(
German
:
Deutschland
,
pronounced
[?d??t?lant]
(
listen
)
), offeecially the
Federal Republic o Germany
(German:
Bundesrepublik Deutschland
,
listen
(
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·
info
)
),
[d]
[6]
is a
federal
pairlamentary republic
in central-wastren
Europe
. It includes 16
constituent states
, covers an area o 357,021 square kilometre (137,847 sq mi), an haes a maistly temperate saisonal climate. Wi aboot 82 million inhabitants, Germany is the maist populous member state o the
European Union
. Efter the
Unitit States
, it is the saicont maist popular immigration destination in the warld.
[7]
[8]
Germany's caipital an lairgest metropolis is
Berlin
, while its mucklest conurbation is the
Ruhr
(main centres:
Dortmund
an
Essen
). Ither major toons include
Hamburg
,
Munich
,
Cologne
,
Frankfurt
,
Stuttgart
,
Dusseldorf
an
Leipzig
.
Various
Germanic tribes
hae inhabitit the northren pairts o modren Germany syne
clessical antiquity
. A region named
Germanie
wis documentit afore 100 AD. During the
Migration Period
the Germanic tribes expandit soothwart. Beginnin in the 10t century, German territories formed a central pairt o the
Haly Roman Empire
.
[9]
During the 16t century, northren German regions becam the centre o the
Protestant Reformation
.
In 1871, Germany becam a nation state whan
maist o the German states unified
intae the
Proushie
-dominatit
German Empire
. Efter
Warld War I
an the
German Revolution o 1918?1919
, the Empire wis replaced bi the pairlamentary
Weimar Republic
.
The establishment
o the
naitional socialist dictatorship
in 1933 led tae
Warld War II
an
the Holocaust
. Efter a period o
Allied occupation
, twa German states wis foondit: the
Federal Republic o Germany
(commonly kent as Wast Germany) an the
German Democratic Republic
(commonly kent as East Germany). In 1990, the kintra wis reunifee'd.
[10]
In the 21st century, Germany is a
great pouer
an haes the warld's fowerth-lairgest economy bi nominal GDP, as weel as the fift-lairgest bi PPP. As a global leader in several industrial an technological sectors, it is baith the warld's third-lairgest exporter an importer o guids. Germany is a
developit kintra
wi a gey an heich staundart o livin susteened bi a skilled an productive society. It uphaulds a social security an universal heal care seestem, environmental pertection an a tuition-free varsity eddication.
[11]
Germany wis a foondin member o the
European Union
in 1993. It is pairt o the
Schengen Area
, an becam a co-foonder o the
Eurozone
in 1999. Germany is a member o the
Unitit Naitions
,
NATO
, the
G8
, the
G20
, an the
OECD
. The naitional militar expenditur is the 9t heichest in the warld. Kent fir its rich cultural history, Germany haes been continuously the hame o influential airtists, philosophers, muisickers, sportsfowk, entrepreneurs, scientists, ingineers, an inventors.
German Pairlament haes twa chambers:
Germany haes 16 federal states:
- ↑
Only the third stanza o the sang is usit as the naitional anthem.
- ↑
Dens
,
Law German
,
Sorbian
,
Romany
, an
Frisian
are recognised bi the
European Charter for Regional or Minority Leids
- ↑
European Union
syne 1993.
- ↑
IPA transcription o "
Bundesrepublik Deutschland
":
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