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We all should be proud of who we are, where we are and where we are all from - and never forget that.
All nationalities and heritage are welcome in our club - we
love to share our tradition, community and friendship.
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FACTS ABOUT GERMANY:
Official language: German
Capital: Berlin
Form of Government: Federal Republic
Largest City: Berlin
Chancellor: Angela Merkel
President: Horst Köhler
Area: 137,826 sq. miles (356,970 sq.km)
about the size of Montana
Population: April 2005 est 82,468,000
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.
Currency: Euro (€)
- Germany (officially The Federal Republic of Germany, German:
Deutschland) is one of the world's leading industrialised countries, located
in the heart of Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark,
and the Baltic Sea, to the south by Austria and Switzerland, to the west by
France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, and to the east by
Poland and the Czech Republic.
- Germany is a democratic federal parliamentary state, made up of 16 federal
states (Länder or, more commonly, Bundesländer), which in certain
spheres act independently of the Federation.
- The Federal Republic of Germany is a member state of the United Nations,
NATO, the G8 nations and a founding member of what is now the European
Union.
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DID YOU KNOW..........
...that outside of Europe, the largest German speaking communities are to be
found in the USA (with the largest concentration of German speakers in North
Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wisconsin, and Indiana; Amish, Hutterites and
some Mennonites also speak dialect of German) and in Brazil, where millions of
Germans migrated in the last 200 years; but the great majority of their
descendants no longer speak German.
