Here, let us take a look at some of the important facts about the country Germany. Here, we have some interesting facts about Germany. Germany (officially: Federal Republic of Germany) is a country in Europe, precisely in Western Europe, with a population of about 83.2 Millions inhabitants today (2024-11-02). The capital city of Federal Republic of Germany is Berlin, and the official country TLD code is .de. Germany has cca2, cca3, cioc, ccn3 codes as DE, DEU, GER, 276 respectively. Check some other vital information below.
As Europe's largest economy and second most-populous nation (after Russia), Germany is a key member of the continent's economic, political, and defense organizations. European power struggles immersed Germany in two devastating world wars in the first half of the 20th century and left the country occupied by the victorious Allied powers of the US, UK, France, and the Soviet Union in 1945. 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 key western economic and security organizations, including the EC (now the EU) and NATO, while the communist GDR was on the front line of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact. The decline of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War allowed German reunification to occur in 1990. Since then, Germany has expended considerable funds to bring eastern productivity and wages up to western standards. In January 1999, Germany and 10 other EU countries introduced a common European exchange currency, the euro.
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