Germany
The Federal Republic of Germany
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About Germany
Situated in the heart of Europe Germany moves forward into the 21st century, leaving behind a history of division and tyranny, a nation embracing its newfound unity and cultural identity, with the memory of the wall that divided Berlin still fresh in the national consciousness.
The reminders of a rich cultural past are present all over with some 27 monuments in Germany on UNESCO's World Heritage list. Germany's cities each are offering something unique to the visitor: The Munich Oktoberfest with millions of litres of beer consumed in a true setting of German 'gemutlichkeit'; Berlin, once the cultural capital of Europe contains many cultural and historical sights like the Brandenburg Gate and remnants of the old Berlin Wall and has a vibrant nightlife; Romantic Heidelberg; the medieval Nuremberg of Dürer; the Weimar of Goethe and the Bauhaus;the Rhineland with its great river that has spawned a particularly rich fund of legends and folklore; these are some of the famous places to visit.
Top destinations in Germany
Cities in Germany
- Aachen
- Augsburg
- Baden-Baden
- Bamberg
- Bayreuth
- Berlin
- Bielefeld
- Bochum
- Bonn
- Bremen
- Brunswick
- Chemnitz
- Cologne
- Dachau
- Darmstadt
- Dortmund
- Dresden
- Duisburg
- Dusseldorf
- Erfurt
- Essen
- Frankfurt
- Frankfurt an der Oder
- Giessen
- Göttingen
- Hamburg
- Hanover
- Heidelberg
- Kaiserslautern
- Karlsruhe
- Kassel
- Kiel
- Koblenz
- Leipzig
- Luebeck
- Magdeburg
- Mainz
- Mannheim
- Munich
- Munster
- Mühlhausen
- Nuremberg
- Oldenburg
- Osnabruck
- Passau
- Potsdam
- Regensburg
- Saarbrücken
- Sachsenhausen
- Schwerin
- Siegen
- Stuttgart
- Trier
- Tuebingen
- Weimar
- Wiesbaden
- Witten
- Würzburg
General information
- Capital: Berlin
- Language: German
- Climate: Temperate and marine; cool, cloudy, wet winters and summers; occasional warm mountain (foehn) wind
- Timezone: UTC+1
- Currency: Euro(€)
- Electricity plugs: c f (show)
- No. of inhabitants: 82,431,390 (July 2005 est.)
- Interl. accesscode +49
- Toplevel domain .de
- Travel alert: EnjoyYourWorld strongly advises you to take necessary precautions for a safe travel. For more info please follow this link
Good to know
Open-minded, modern and tolerant – these are the hallmarks of German society at the beginning of the 21st century.
Religion: Protestant 34%, Roman Catholic 34%, Muslim 3.7%, unaffiliated or other 28.3%
National holiday: Unity Day, 3 October (1990)
Travel tips
Bode Museum-Berlin
The Bode Museum on Museum Island in Berlin is lovely.It has just been renovated and its Byzantine art is just fantastic.
Posted on 23-02-2007 by koanatori
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