General information about Germany

Country
Official name: Federal Republic of Germany
Abbreviated name: Germany
Capital: Berlin
Language: German (official), in addition to other languages such as Serbian, Danish, Romanian, and Frisian, as well as immigrant languages such as Turkish, Kurdish, Balkan, and Russian.
Political system: Federal Republic
Independence Day (National Day): October 3 (1990) The date of the unification of West Germany and East GermanyCurrency: Euro.

geography
Location: Germany is located in central Europe, bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea, to the east by Poland, Czechia, and Austria, to the south by Austria and Switzerland, and to the west. French Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands
Area: 357.022 square kilometers
Natural resources: coal, natural gas, iron, copper, nickel, uranium, potash, salt, building materials, lumber, farmland
Climate: moderate, cool and cloudy most days of the year.

population
Number: 80.996.685 people (July 2014 estimates)
Growth rate: minus 0.18% (2014 estimate)
Ethnic distribution: 80% German, 3.7% Turkish, 16.3% other (Greeks, Italians, Poles, Russians, Croats, Spanish)
Religion: 34% Protestant Christians, 34% Catholic Christians, 3.7% Muslims, 28.3% have no religion or other sects.

Economy
GDP: $3.593 trillion
Annual per capita output: $39500
Growth rate: 0.5%
Unemployment rate: 5.3%
Inflation rate: 1.6%
External debt: $5.717 trillion
The most important products: steel and iron, coal, chemicals, machinery, cars, transportation, electronic devices, shipbuilding, textiles, potatoes, and grains.

Federal Eagle

Germany's most ancient state symbol is the federal eagle. Federal President, Council of States, Federal Constitutional Court

The Bundestag all use different shapes of the eagle. Also, coins and shirts of German sports federations bear various shapes and images of the eagle.

Science

The German constitution specifies the colors of the federal German flag as black, red, and gold. In 1949, the colors were inspired by the first flag of the German Republic, which dates back to 1919. The Nazi regime had abolished that flag and adopted the swastika logo in its place.

the currency

Since January 2002, 1948, the euro has been the only official payment currency in Germany. The euro replaced the German mark, which began trading in XNUMX. The headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB) is in Frankfurt, the German financial capital.

The sixteen states

National anthem

The German national anthem consists exclusively of the third stanza of Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben's "Song of Germany" (1841). The composition of the national anthem was composed by Joseph Haydn (1796/1797).

Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit
für das deutsche vaterland!
Danach last some all streben
Brüderlich mit Herz und Hand!
Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit
sind des Gluckes Unterpfand:
|: Blüh im Glanze dieses Glückes,
Bluhe, Germany Vaterland! 😐