Germany | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-08

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Germany


00:04:01 1 Etymology
00:04:55 2 History
00:06:11 2.1 Germanic tribes and Frankish Empire
00:08:08 2.2 East Francia and Holy Roman Empire
00:13:58 2.3 German Confederation and Empire
00:19:21 2.4 Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany
00:26:02 2.5 East and West Germany
00:29:52 2.6 Reunified Germany and the European Union
00:32:50 3 Geography
00:34:48 3.1 Climate
00:36:39 3.2 Biodiversity
00:38:30 3.3 Urbanisation
00:39:02 4 Politics
00:42:08 4.1 Law
00:43:28 4.2 Constituent states
00:44:31 4.3 Foreign relations
00:46:11 4.4 Military
00:48:35 5 Economy
00:50:32 5.1 Companies
00:51:39 5.2 Transport
00:52:45 5.3 Energy and infrastructure
00:54:08 5.4 Science and technology
00:56:58 5.5 Tourism
00:58:28 6 Demographics
01:00:11 6.1 Immigrant population
01:02:45 6.2 Religion
01:06:20 6.3 Languages
01:08:14 6.4 Education
01:10:43 6.5 Health
01:12:21 7 Culture
01:13:54 7.1 Music
01:15:32 7.2 Art
01:17:20 7.3 Architecture
01:20:09 7.4 Literature and philosophy
01:22:06 7.5 Media
01:23:46 7.6 Cinema
01:27:31 7.7 Cuisine
01:29:12 7.8 Sports
01:31:31 7.9 Fashion and design
01:32:38 8 See also



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Germany (German: Deutschland German pronunciation: [ˈdɔʏtʃlant]), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, listen ), is a country in Central and Western Europe, lying between the Baltic and North seas to the north, and the Alps to the south. It borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, and France, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands to the west. Germany includes 16 constituent states, covers an area of 357,386 square kilometres (137,988 sq mi), and has a largely temperate seasonal climate. With nearly 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 decentralized country. Its capital and largest metropolis is Berlin, while Frankfurt serves as its financial capital and has the country's busiest airport. Germany's largest urban area is the Ruhr, with its main centres of Dortmund and Essen. The country's other major cities are Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Leipzig, Dresden, Bremen, Hannover, and Nuremberg.
Various Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical antiquity. A region named Germania was documented before 100 AD. During the Migration Period, the Germanic tribes expanded southward. Beginning in the 10th century, German territories formed a central part of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th century, northern German regions became the centre of the Protestant Reformation. After the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire, the German Confederation was formed in 1815. The German revolutions of 1848–49 resulted in the Frankfurt Parliament establishing major democratic rights.
In 1871, Germany became a nation state when most of the German states (most notably excluding Switzerland and Austria) unified into the Prussian-dominated German Empire. After World War I and the revolution of 1918–19, the Empire was replaced by the parliamentary Weimar Republic. The Nazi seizure of power in 1933 led to the establishment of a dictatorship, World War II and the Holocaust. After the end of World War II in Europe and a period of Allied occupation, two German states were founded: West Germany, formed from the American, British, and French occupation zones, and East Germany, formed from the Soviet occupation zone. Following the Revolutions of 1989 that ended communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe, the country was reunified on 3 October 1990.Today, the sovereign state of Germany is a federal parliamentary republic with an elected  president. It is a great power with a strong economy; it has the world's fourth-largest economy by nominal GDP, and the fifth-largest by P ...