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Deutsch: German Basic Info About Germany (200-250 Words)

The English word Germany derives from Latin terms and refers to the peoples east of the Rhine river. With over 83 million people, Germany is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia and has a very decentralized government, with Berlin as its capital and Frankfurt as its financial center. Germany borders many European countries and has a land area of over 357,000 square kilometers, with a mostly temperate seasonal climate. Forests and arable land cover the majority of Germany's territory.

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Deutsch: German Basic Info About Germany (200-250 Words)

The English word Germany derives from Latin terms and refers to the peoples east of the Rhine river. With over 83 million people, Germany is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia and has a very decentralized government, with Berlin as its capital and Frankfurt as its financial center. Germany borders many European countries and has a land area of over 357,000 square kilometers, with a mostly temperate seasonal climate. Forests and arable land cover the majority of Germany's territory.

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Basic Info about Germany (200-250 words)


The English word Germany derives from the Latin Germania, which came into use after Julius Caesar adopted it
for the peoples east of the Rhine.[14] The German term Deutschland, originally diutisciu land ("the German lands")
is derived from deutsch (compare Dutch), descended from Old High German diutisc "of the people"
(from diot or diota "people"), originally used to distinguish the language of the common people from Latin and
its Romance descendants.

With 83 million inhabitants, it is the second most populous state of Europe after Russia, the most populous state
lying entirely in Europe, as well as the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is a very
decentralised country. Its capital and largest metropolis is Berlin, while Frankfurt serves as its financial capital
and has the country's busiest airport.

Germany is in Western and Central Europe, bordering Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to


the east, Austria to the southeast, and Switzerland to the south-
southwest. France, Luxembourg and Belgium are situated to the west, with the Netherlands to the northwest. It
lies mostly between latitudes 47° and 55° N and longitudes 5° and 16° E. Germany is also bordered by the North
Sea and, at the north-northeast, by the Baltic Sea. German territory covers 357,021 km2 (137,847 sq mi),
consisting of 349,223 km2 (134,836 sq mi) of land and 7,798 km2 (3,011 sq mi) of water. It is the seventh largest
country by area in Europe and the 64th largest in the world. Most of Germany has a temperate seasonal climate
dominated by humid westerly winds. The country is situated in between the oceanic Western European and
the continental Eastern European climate.  Germany gets an average of 789 mm (31 in) of precipitation per year;
there is no consistent dry season. Winters are cool and summers tend to be warm: temperatures can exceed
30 °C (86 °F).

The territory of Germany can be divided into two ecoregions: European-Mediterranean montane mixed


forests and Northeast-Atlantic shelf marine.[92] As of 2008 the majority of Germany is covered by either arable
land (34%) or forest and woodland (30.1%), while 13.4% consists of permanent pastures, and 11.8% is covered
by settlements and streets.
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