Main Statistics and Facts about Germany....

Language: German

Population Dec 1999: 82,163 million

Geography

Location: Central Europe

Area: 137,826 sq. miles (356,970 sq.km), about the size of Montana

Western Germany: 96,095 sq. miles, the size of Wyoming
Eastern Germany: 41,731 sq. miles, the size of Virginia


Map of Germany

Federal states

Baden-Wuerttemberg (population in millions:10.37, capital: Stuttgart)

Bavaria (12.04, Munich), Berlin (3.45)

Brandenburg (2.55, Potsdam)

Bremen (0.68), Hamburg (1.71)

Hessen (6.03, Wiesbaden)

Lower Saxony (7.82, Hanover)

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (1.82,Schwerin)

North Rhine-Westphalia (17.95, Duesseldorf)

Rhineland-Palatinate (4, Mainz)

Saarland (1.08, Saarbruecken)

Saxony (4.55, Dresden)

Saxony-Anhalt (2.72, Magdeburg)

Schleswig-Holstein (2.74, Kiel)

Thuringia (2.49, Erfurt)

Religions, 1998: 33% Protestant, 33% Roman Catholic, 34% none or other.

Population, Dec.'99:82,163 million

of which: economically active : 42,713
unemployed persons: 3,931
employees: 34,564
self employed: 4,218

Economic

GDP at current prices, in billion Euros, change over prev. year real in %

2003:2,163.40 (-0.1)

2004: 2,215.65 (+1.6)

2005: 1rst Q:+1.0%, 2nd Q:0.0%

Land use

54.1% farming,
29.4% forest,
11.8% built-up areas,
roads and railways, 2.2% water,
2.5% other.

Governement

Type: democratic, federal, multi-party republic with representatives chosen directly by the people.
Head of state: Federal President Elected for a five-year-term, may be re-elected only once for a second consecutive term. State president Prof. Dr. Horst Köhler (CDU).
Head of government: Federal Chancellor Elected for a four-year term, no limitation on re-election.
Federal Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel

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