Federal Republic of Germany

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Federal Republic of Germany
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Geography

• GERMANY...
• ... is bordered by Austria, Switzerland, Denmark,
  the Czech Republic, France, Louxembourg, Poland,
  Belgium and the Netherlands.
• ... has 82 Million inhabitants, and with that the
  largest number of any EU-State
• ... is a federal parliamentary republic of
  sixteen states.
• ... is a member of the EU, United Nations, NATO,
  the G8 and signed the Kyoto protocol.
• The Federal Republic of Germany was founded on
  the 23.05.1949
• The capitol and largest City is Berlin

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Economy

• Export is one of the main factors of the
  country's wealth.
• Germany is the world's top exporter.
• Germany is the leading producer of wind turbines
  and solar power technology in the world.
• The largest, annual, international trade fairs
  and congresses are held in German
  cities(Hannover, Frankfurt and Berlin.)?

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Infrastructure

• Germany has a central place in Europe.
• Germany has established a polycentric network of
  high-speed trains.
• The InterCityExpress(ICE) is predominantly
  serving major German cities and destinations in
  neighbouring countries.
• Speed varies from 160 km/h to 300 km/h.

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Science

• The Nobel Prize has been awarded to 101 German
  laureates.
• Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered X-rays, this
  accomplishment made him the first winner of the
  Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.
• German inventors, engineers and industrialists
  such as Gottlieb Daimler, Rudolf Diesel and Karl
  Benz helped shape modern automotive and technology

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Culture

• Germany is historically called "Das Land der
  Dichter und Denker" (the land of poets and
  thinkers).
• Hans Holbein the Younger, Matthias Grünewald, and
  Albrecht Dürer were important artists of the
  Renaissance, Caspar David Friedrich of
  Romanticism, and Max Ernst of Surrealism.
• Germany claims some of the world's most renowned
  classical music composers, including Ludwig van
  Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms
  and Richard Wagner.
• As of 2006, Germany is the fifth largest music
  market in the world and has influenced pop and
  rock music through artists such as Kraftwerk,
  Scorpions and Rammstein.

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Sports

• Twenty-seven million Germans are members of a
  sports club and an additional twelve million
  pursue such an activity individually.
• Football is the most popular sport.
• With more than 6.3 million official members, the
  German Football Association (Deutscher
  Fußball-Bund ) is the largest sports organisation
  of this kind worldwide.
• The German national football team won the FIFA
  World Cup in 1954, 1974 and 1990 and the European
  Football Championship in 1972, 1980 and 1996.
• Germany has hosted the FIFA World Cup in 1974 and
  2006 and the UEFA European Football Championship
  in 1988.
• German sportsmen have been some of the most
  successful contenders in the Olympic Games,
  ranking third in an all-time Olympic Games medal
  count, combining East and West German medals.
• In the 2008 Summer Olympics, Germany finished
  fifth in the medal count, while in the 2006
  Winter Olympics they finished first.

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Impressions