| | Geographic Coordinates: | 51 00 N, 9 00 E | | Location: | Central Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, between the Netherlands and Poland, south of Denmark | | Area: | total: 357,021 sq km
land: 349,223 sq km
water: 7,798 sq km | | Area - comparative: | slightly smaller than Montana | | Land boundaries: | total: 3,621 km
border countries: Austria 784 km, Belgium 167 km, Czech Republic 646 km, Denmark 68 km, France 451 km, Luxembourg 138 km, Netherlands 577 km, Poland 456 km, Switzerland 334 km | | Coastline: | 2,389 km | | Terrain: | lowlands in north, uplands in center, Bavarian Alps in south | | Elevation extremes: | lowest point: Neuendorf bei Wilster -3.54 m
highest point: Zugspitze 2,963 m | | Capital: | 16 states (Laender, singular - Land); Baden-Wuerttemberg, Bayern (Bavaria), Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Hessen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania), Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony), Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine-Westphalia), Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate), Saarland, Sachsen (Saxony), Sachsen-Anhalt (Saxony-Anhalt), Schleswig-Holstein, Thueringen (Thuringia); note - Bayern, Sachsen, and Thueringen refer to themselves as free states (Freistaaten, singular - Freistaat) |
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