Germany March 1, 2019 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 , Mer du Nord , München , Munich , NATO , 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 ) 82,886,977 inhabitants (2018) Population growth 0.27 % / year Area 357,386 km² Density 231.93 inhabitants / km² GDP (ranking: 4e )3,677.439 billions $USD (2017) GDP/capita (ranking ) 44,470 $USD (2017) GDP growth 2.20 % / year (2017) Life expectancy (ranking ) 80.26 years (2012) 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: 13e )0.936 / 1 (2017) 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 (2012) Urban areas Population Ruhr 11,857,353 inhabitants Berlin 4,469,439 inhabitants Francfort 3,973,266 inhabitants Hambourg 3,173,871 inhabitants Munich 2,768,488 inhabitants Stuttgart 2,668,439 inhabitants Mannheim 1,392,263 inhabitants Leipzig-Halle 1,362,128 inhabitants Dresde 1,328,759 inhabitants Nuremberg 1,321,451 inhabitants Chemnitz-Zwickau 1,225,883 inhabitants Bielefeld 1,156,782 inhabitants Hanovre 1,144,481 inhabitants Brême 976,819 inhabitants Saarbruck 815,296 inhabitants Karlsruhe 722,672 inhabitants Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) 686,676 inhabitants Brunswick 588,778 inhabitants Augsbourg 576,413 inhabitants Munster 538,508 inhabitants Kiel 503,610 inhabitants Kassel 481,172 inhabitants Fribourg 462,360 inhabitants Heidelberg 427,514 inhabitants Ulm 396,948 inhabitants
Administrative divisions States (Länder) Population Area Bade-Wurtemberg 10,879,618 inhabitants 35,751 km² Basse-Saxe 7,926,599 inhabitants 47,615 km² Bavière 12,843,514 inhabitants 70,550 km² Berlin 3,520,031 inhabitants 892 km² Brandebourg 2,484,826 inhabitants 29,654 km² Brême 671,489 inhabitants 419 km² Hambourg 1,787,408 inhabitants 755 km² Hesse 6,176,172 inhabitants 21,115 km² Mecklembourg-Poméranie Occidentale 1,612,362 inhabitants 23,214 km² Rhénanie du Nord-Westphalie 17,865,516 inhabitants 34,110 km² Rhénanie-Palatinat 4,052,803 inhabitants 19,854 km² Sarre 995,597 inhabitants 2,569 km² Saxe 4,084,851 inhabitants 18,420 km² Saxe-Anhalt 2,245,470 inhabitants 20,452 km² Schleswig-Holstein 2,858,714 inhabitants 15,802 km² Thuringe 2,170,714 inhabitants 16,202 km²
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