Official name
Federal Republic of Germany
Name in local language
Bundesrepublik Deutschland (de)
Continent
Europe
Subcontinent
European Union
Population (ranking: 17e )
83,129,285 inhabitants (2021)
Population growth
-0.01 % / year
Area
357,386 km²
Density
232.60 inhabitants / km²
GDP (ranking: 4e )3,846.414 billions $USD (2020)
GDP/capita (ranking )
46,208 $USD (2020)
GDP growth
-4.60 % / year (2020)
Life expectancy (ranking )
81.00 years (2020)
Birth rate
9.30 ‰ (2020)
Fertility rate
1.53 children / woman (2020)
Death rate (ranking )
11.80 ‰ (2020)
Infant mortality rate (ranking )
3.00 ‰ (2019)
Literacy rate
100.00 % (2021)
Official languages
German
Currency
Euro (€ EUR)
HDI (ranking: 9e )0.947 / 1 (2019)
EPI (ranking )78.37 (2018)
Government
Federal constitutional parliamentary republic
Head of State
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier ; Chancellor Olaf Scholz
National Day
3 October (Reunification of 1990)
ISO Codes DE, DEU
Demonym
German
Tourists (ranking )
38,881,000 people (2018)
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
11,103,043 inhabitants
35,751 km²
Bavaria
13,140,183 inhabitants
70,550 km²
Berlin
3,664,088 inhabitants
892 km²
Brandenburg
2,531,071 inhabitants
29,654 km²
Bremen
680,130 inhabitants
419 km²
Hamburg
1,852,478 inhabitants
755 km²
Hesse
6,293,154 inhabitants
21,115 km²
Lower Saxony
8,003,421 inhabitants
47,615 km²
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
1,610,774 inhabitants
23,214 km²
North Rhine-Westphalia
17,925,570 inhabitants
34,110 km²
Rhineland-Palatinate
4,098,391 inhabitants
19,854 km²
Sarrland
983,991 inhabitants
2,569 km²
Saxony
4,056,941 inhabitants
18,420 km²
Saxony-Anhalt
2,180,684 inhabitants
20,452 km²
Schleswig-Holstein
2,910,875 inhabitants
15,802 km²
Thuringia
2,120,237 inhabitants
16,202 km²
See also
