Germany March 21, 2020 Alps , Baltic , Baltic Sea , Berlin , Brême , Bundesrepublik Deutschland , Central Europe , Cologne , Confédération germanique , Danube , Deutschland , Dresde , Dresden , Duisbourg , Dusseldorf , Elbe , Essen , Euro zone , Europe , European Union , fleuve Danube , Frankfurt , Germany , Hambourg , Hanovre , Länder , München , Munich , NATO , North Sea , Nuremberg , OECD , Rhine , Rhine River , Ruhr , Saint-Empire romain germanique , Saxe , Stuttgart Official name Federal Republic of Germany Name in local language Bundesrepublik Deutschland (de) Continent Europe Subcontinent European Union Population (ranking: 17e ) 83,042,235 inhabitants (2019) Population growth 0.30 % / year Area 357,386 km² Density 232.36 inhabitants / km² GDP (ranking: 4e )3,996.759 billions $USD (2018) GDP/capita (ranking ) 48,196 $USD (2018) GDP growth 1.40 % / year (2018) Life expectancy (ranking ) 81.20 years (2018) Birth rate 8.40 ‰ (2013) Fertility rate 1.59 children / woman (2016) Death rate (ranking ) 11.10 ‰ (2013) Infant mortality rate (ranking ) 2.20 ‰ (2012) Literacy rate 100.00 % (2018) Official languages German Currency Euro (€ EUR) HDI (ranking: 14e )0.939 / 1 (2018) EPI (ranking )78.37 (2018) Government Federal constitutional parliamentary republic Head of State President Frank-Walter Steinmeier ; Chancellor Angela Merkel National Day 3 October (Reunification of 1990) ISO Codes DE, DEU Demonym German Tourists (ranking ) 37,452,000 people (2017)
The population is rising thanks to massive immigration Germany is a federal state of Central Europe, bordered by the North Sea, Denmark and the Baltic Sea to the north, Poland and the Czechia to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, and by the France , Luxembourg , Belgium and the Netherlands to the west. It occupies a strategic central position in the heart of Europe and the European Union. It is organized in “Länder”, or Federated States, numbering 16.
Berlin, Germany. Photo: Wikipedia Saxon Switzerland, Germany. Photo: Andreas Steinhoff, Wikipedia Urban areas (2018) Urban areas Population Rhine-Ruhr 10,642,890 inhabitants Berlin 4,469,439 inhabitants Frankfurt 3,794,360 inhabitants Hamburg 3,173,871 inhabitants Stuttgart 2,996,440 inhabitants Munich 2,879,107 inhabitants Mannheim 1,400,533 inhabitants Nuremberg 1,340,886 inhabitants Leipzig-Halle 1,178,658 inhabitants Hanover 1,157,624 inhabitants Dresden 1,143,197 inhabitants Karlsruhe 1,033,550 inhabitants Bremen 976,819 inhabitants Bielefeld 926,761 inhabitants Chemnitz-Zwickau 883,743 inhabitants Saarbrücken 763,815 inhabitants Augsburg 661,540 inhabitants Freiburg im Breisgau 658,419 inhabitants Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) 650,960 inhabitants Brunswick 588,778 inhabitants Munster 538,508 inhabitants Kiel 503,610 inhabitants Kassel 481,172 inhabitants Heidelberg 427,514 inhabitants Ulm 396,948 inhabitants
Administrative divisions States (Länder) Population Area Baden-Württemberg 11,079,176 inhabitants 35,751 km² Bavaria 13,083,193 inhabitants 70,550 km² Berlin 3,652,885 inhabitants 892 km² Brandenburg 2,512,812 inhabitants 29,654 km² Bremen 683,734 inhabitants 419 km² Hamburg 1,841,203 inhabitants 755 km² Hesse 6,272,024 inhabitants 21,115 km² Lower Saxony 7,986,189 inhabitants 47,615 km² Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 1,608,635 inhabitants 23,214 km² North Rhine-Westphalia 17,930,081 inhabitants 34,110 km² Rhineland-Palatinate 4,087,184 inhabitants 19,854 km² Sarrland 989,220 inhabitants 2,569 km² Saxony 4,074,771 inhabitants 18,420 km² Saxony-Anhalt 2,204,192 inhabitants 20,452 km² Schleswig-Holstein 2,897,411 inhabitants 15,802 km² Thuringia 2,139,525 inhabitants 16,202 km²
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