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Germany



Surface: 357.022 qkm

Total population: 82.398.362 (2003)

Population density: 230,8 per qkm

Capital: Berlin

Inhabitant: 3.274.500 (2003)


Geography

Germany borders in the north on Denmark, in the west on the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France, in the south on Switzerland and Austria. The eastern neighbours of the Federal Republic are the Czech republic and Poland. In the northwest the North Sea forms a natural border. The German Baltic Sea coast extends from the Danish border until Poland. From the south to the north one can differentiate three landscape areas - the alps with the Alpine foreland, the forest-rich central mountain zone and the north German lowlandses. The Rhine country, the Black Forest and Bavaria are the traditional vacation areas in the west of Germany. In East Germany, particularly in the Mark Brandenburg and in Mecklenburg, gives it innumerable seas. The lowlandses change into the hill and mountain country of the Lausitz and Saxonia. The Elbsandsteingebirge south of Dresden impresses with its bizarren rock formations. The ore mountains are popular winter sports and recreation area. In the heart of Germany Thuringia and that are appropriate for resin, forest-rich low mountain ranges, in which one can move wonderful. To the German part of the alps the Allgaeuer alps, the Bavarian alps (with of Germany highest mountain, the course point, 2964 m) and the Berchtesgadener alps belongs. Of this region high mountain forms with burrs and steeply dropping walls are characteristic. The Alpine foreland is a far, hilly hochebene, which extends after the north and northeast to the Danube level. Moorlands, hill chains and lakes determine the landscape. Elbe, or, Weser, Rhine, Mosel, Donau, Isar, Main and Neckar are the most important rivers of Germany. The largest natural lake more istder between the Federal Republic, Switzerland and Austria convenient Bodensee.


System of Government

Democratic-parliamentary Federal State, since 1949. Basic Law of 1949, last changed 1998. The parliament, the Bundestag, has 656 delegates. Legislative period: 4 years. The agreement of the Upper House of Parliament, which represents the individual countries, is necessary for certain laws. It consists of 69 members, that will recall from the individual countries determined and. The executive force is subject to the Federal Government, which the Federal Chancellor manages. Each Land of the Federal Republic has its own condition, legislation (federal state parliament) and government and can thus laws adopt, if they do not fall under the competence of the federation.

Head of state: (Bundeskanzler) Gerhard Schroeder (SPD), since 1998. Germany is European Union member.


Language

Government language is German. The numerous regional dialects deviate partly strongly from the high German. A majority of the population speaks English. In the north of Schleswig-Holstein there is a Danish minority, and Danish is z. T. school language. In Brandenburg and Saxonia a sorbische minority lives, and at approximately 50 schools Sorbisch, a slawische language, is instruction language.


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