Some facts about Germany

Germany is located in the heart of Europe. With it’s size of 357,000 km² it has almost the same size as Montana in the USA but with almost 82 million inhabitants there live 82 times more people as in Montana. The capital is Berlin, before the reunion of West Germany and East Germany (DDR) it was Bonn in West Germany. Germany belongs to the very high sophisticated countries in the world (according to Wikipedia). Germany has the largest national economy in Europe. World-wide, in 2009 it was the second largest export nation and the third largest import nation. Germany is a federal parliamentary republic and consists of sixteen states as there are:

The city states Bremen, Hamburg and Berlin and furthermore Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony, Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony, Thueringen, Hessen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Bavaria listed from north to south.