Germany
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As Europe's largest economy and second most populous nation, Germany remains a key member of the continent's economic, political, and defense organizations. As a foreign language, German is the third most taught worldwide and the second most used language on the Internet after English.
Germany is in Central Europe, bordering the North Sea and the Baltic Sea between the Netherlands and Poland, and to the south of Denmark. It has land boundaries with Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland and Switzerland. Germany has a coastline of 2,389 km. The terrain is generally lowland in the north, with uplands in the centre and the Bavarian Alps in the south. The climate is temperate with cool, cloudy, wet winters and occasional warm summers. Over 30% of the country is forest and woodland.
AREA: 357,021 sq km
CLIMATE: Temperate and marine; cool, cloudy, wet winters and summers; occasional warm mountain (foehn) wind
POPULATION: 82,422,299 (July 2006 est.)
RELIGIONS: Protestant 34%, Roman Catholic 34%, Muslim 3.7%, unaffiliated or other 28.3%
LANGUAGES: German
GOVERNMENT TYPE: Federal republic
CAPITAL: Berlin
CURRENCY: Euro
NATIONAL HOLIDAY: Unity Day, 3 October (1990)
GDP PER CAPITA (purchasing power parity): $30,100 (2005 est.)
France = $29,600 (2005 est.)
USA = $41,600 (2005 est.)
China = $6,800 (2005 est.)
Bresil = $8,300 (2005 est.)
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