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Germany is one of the world's most industrialised countries, located in the center 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 republic, containing 16 federal states (Bundesländer), which in certain spheres act independently of the Federation or "Bund".

Germany is a developed country with a very high standard of living, and it maintains a comprehensive social security, a universal health care system and diverse environmental protection laws. It is a global leader in several industrial and technological sectors.

The Federal Republic of Germany is a member state of the United Nations, NATO, the G8 nations, and a founding member of the European Union. More...

The Battle of Jutland (German: Skagerrakschlacht) was the largest naval battle of World War I and the only full-scale clash of battleships in that war. It was fought on 31 May–1 June 1916, in the North Sea near Jutland, the northward-pointing peninsular mainland of Denmark. The combatants were the Kaiserliche Marine’s (Germany's) High Seas Fleet and the Royal Navy’s British Grand Fleet. The intention of the German fleet was to lure out, trap and destroy a portion of the Grand Fleet, part of their larger strategy of breaking the British naval blockade of the North Sea and allowing German mercantile shipping to operate again. The Royal Navy, on the other hand, was pursuing a strategy seeking to engage and cripple the High Seas Fleet and keep the German force bottled up and away from their own shipping lanes.

Fourteen British and eleven German ships were sunk with great loss of life. Both sides claimed victory. The British had lost more ships and many more sailors, and the British press criticized the Grand Fleet's actions, but Scheer’s plan of destroying Beatty’s squadrons had also failed. In the aftermath of the battle, the German Navy turned its efforts and resources to unrestricted submarine warfare. More...

Cologne Cathedral and railway bridge

The Hohenzollernbrücke bridge and Cologne Cathedral

Image credit: Thomas Robbin

Schmidt in 1977

• 01 January 2016: New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Germany
• 10 November 2015: Helmut Schmidt, chancellor of Germany, dies at the age of 96.
• 10 October 2015: In European migrant crisis migrants number in Germany increase up to 1.5 million in 2015.
• 5 July 2015: The Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with Chilehaus in Hamburg was declared a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO.

More Germany-related news in English can be found at Deutsche Welle, Tagesschau, and Der Spiegel.

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Europe	EU	NATO

Neighbouring countries

A	B	CZ	DK	FR
LUX	NL	PL	CH

Länder

Baden- Württemberg	Bavaria	Berlin	Brandenburg	Hamburg
Hesse	Lower Saxony	Mecklenburg- Vorpommern	North Rhine- Westphalia	Rhineland- Palatinate
Saarland	Saxony	Saxony- Anhalt	Schleswig- Holstein	Thuringia

Other

East Frisia	East Germany	Eifel	Elbe Sandstone Mountains	Elbe-Weser Triangle	German Empire
German football	Harz Mountains	Holy Roman Empire	Lüneburg Heath	Military of Germany	Ore Mountains
Palatine Forest	Rhön	Silesia

Ulrike Meinhof

• 1521 - Birth of theologian Petrus Canisius
• 1928 - Birth of politician Manfred Gerlach, Staatsratsvorsitzender der DDR 1989-1990
• 1936 - Death of historian and philosopher Oswald Spengler
• 1945 - Victory in Europe Day: The unconditional surrender of German forces ends World War II in Europe
• 1976 - Death of Red Army Faction revolutionary Ulrike Meinhof

Did you know ...

• ... that Bach used the cantata Höchsterwünschtes Freudenfest, BWV 194, written for the inauguration of the church and organ in Störmthal (pictured), several times for Trinity Sunday?
• ... that Else Seifert worked as an onboard photographer for Hamburg Süd on its shipping routes around Europe, Africa, and the Middle East in the 1930s?
• ... that Anna Rügerin's 1484 books are the first publications known to be typeset by a woman?
• ... that the song "Ständchen" (Serenade), by Richard Strauss, begins with an appeal to creep out quietly and ends with a climax of expecting a rose to glow from the rapture of the night?
• ... that after attending the premiere, a critic wrote that Gesang der Verklärten by Max Reger (pictured) "may well reach the outermost limit of musical expression altogether"?
• ... that Nikolaus Hillebrand, who as a boy was a member of the Regensburger Domspatzen, and recorded with them as a soloist on Bach's St John Passion in 1979 and Dittersdorf's Requiem in 2009?
• ... that the River Trave was declared Germany's 2016/17 "Riverscape of the Year" by the Friends of Nature?
• ... that Max Reger's Nachtlied (Night Song) appears on the recording The Best of the King's Singers?

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