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Quickfacts: Geography
Area:
137,826 sq. miles (356,970 sq.km), about the size of Montana
Western Germany:
96,095 sq. miles, the size of Wyoming
Eastern Germany:
41,731 sq. miles, the size of Virginia.
Location:
Central Europe
Neighbors:
Denmark to the North, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, France to the
West, Switzerland, Austria to the South, Czech Republic, Poland to
the East.
Federal
states: Baden-Wuerttemberg (population in millions:10.37, capital:
Stuttgart), Bavaria (12.04, Munich), Berlin (3.45),
Brandenburg
(2.55, Potsdam), Bremen (0.68), Hamburg (1.71),
Hesse (6.03,
Wiesbaden), Lower Saxony (7.82, Hanover), Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (1.82,Schwerin),
North Rhine-Westphalia (17.95, Duesseldorf), Rhineland-Palatinate
(4, Mainz),Saarland (1.08, Saarbruecken), Saxony (4.55, Dresden),
Saxony-Anhalt (2.72, Magdeburg), Schleswig-Holstein (2.74, Kiel),
Thuringia (2.49, Erfurt).
Major
cities: (population Jan. '99):
Berlin: 3,398,800,
national capital since Oct. 3, 1990
Hamburg:1,700,000
Munich: 1,188,900
Cologne: 962,600
Frankfurt:
643,900
Essen: 603,200
Dortmund:
591,700
Stuttgart:
582,000
Duesseldorf:
568,400
Bremen: 543,000
Duisburg:
523,300
Hanover: 516,200
Nuremberg:
487,100
Dresden: 452,800
Leipzig: 437,100
Land use:
54.1% farming, 29.4% forest,11.8% built-up areas,
roads and
railways, 2.2% water, 2.5% other.
Natural
resources: iron ore, coal, timber, copper, natural gas, salt.
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