Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second-most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union.
Bundesrepublik Deutschland | |
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| Capital and largest city | Berlin |
| Government | Federal parliamentary bourgeois state |
• President | Frank-Walter Steinmeier |
• Chancellor | Angela Merkel |
| History | |
• Proclamation of the German Empire | 18 January 1871 |
• Proclamation of the Weimar Republic | 9 November 1918 |
• Establishment of Nazi Germany | 23 March 1933 |
• Division of Germany | 23 May 1949 |
• German reunification | 3 October 1990 |
| Population | |
• 2020 estimate | 83,190,556 |