Country's codes
International phone code for Germany: +49
Standard EAN-13 (country barcode): 400-440
Olympic country code: GER
Useful country information
Land area: 137,846 sq mi (357,021 sq km)
Population (2022 est.): 83.13 million
Capital and largest city (2022 est.): Berlin (capital since Oct. 3, 1990), 3,677,500
Berlin: Capital City Profile
Other large cities: Hamburg, 1.796 million; Munich, 1.364; Cologne, 1.006 million
Monetary unit: Euro (formerly Deutsche mark)
National name: Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Language: German
Ethnicity/race: German 91.5%, Turkish 2.4%, Italian 0.7%, Greek 0.4%, Polish 0.4%, other 4.6%
Religions: Protestant 34%, Roman Catholic 34%, Islam 4%, Unaffiliated or other 28%
National Holiday: Unity Day, October 3
Background:
The Federal Republic of Germany is located in the heart of Europe. The nation-state now known as Germany was first unified in 1871 as a modern federal state, the German Empire.
In the first half of the 20th century, two devastating World Wars, of which Germany was responsible for, left the country occupied by the victorious Allied powers.
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 Western economic and security organizations, the EEC and NATO, while the communist GDR was on the front line of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact. The decline of the USSR and the fall of Communism enabled Germany's unification in 1990.
With the unification of the two German states, the country became Europe's most populous nation (situated entirely in Europe) and strengthened its role as a key member of the European Union and the continent's economic, political, and security organizations.
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