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Geography

Location: Central Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, between the Netherlands and Poland, south of Denmark

Area:
total area: 356,910 sq km
land area: 349,520 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than Montana

Land boundaries: total 3,621 km, Austria 784 km, Belgium 167 km, Czech Republic 646km, Denmark 68 km, France 451 km, Luxembourg 138 km, Netherlands 577 km,Poland 456 km, Switzerland 334 km

Coastline: 2,389 km


People

Population: 81,337,541 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 16% (female 6,518,108; male 6,857,577)
15-64 years: 68% (female 27,167,824; male 28,130,083)
65 years and over: 16% (female 8,127,938; male 4,536,011)

Population growth rate: 0.26% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 10.98 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 10.83 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 2.46 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 6.3 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 76.62 years
male: 73.5 years
female: 79.92 years

Total fertility rate: 1.5 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: German 95.1%, Turkish 2.3%, Italians 0.7%, Greeks 0.4%, Poles 0.4%,other 1.1% (made up largely of people fleeing the war in the former Yugoslavia)

Religions: Protestant 45%, Roman Catholic 37%, unaffiliated or other 18%

Languages: German

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1991 est.)
total population: 99%
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Government

Names:
conventional long form: Federal Republic of Germany
conventional short form: Germany

Type: federal republic

Capital: Berlin

Independence: 18 January 1871 (German Empire unification); divided into four zonesof occupation (UK, US, USSR, and later, France) in 1945 following World War II; Federal Republic of Germany (FRG or West Germany) proclaimed 23 May 1949 and included the former UK, US, and French zones; German Democratic Republic (GDR or East Germany) proclaimed 7 October 1949 and included the former USSR zone; unification of West Germany and East Germany took place3 October 1990; all four power rights formally relinquished 15 March 1991

Constitution: 23 May 1949, known as Basic Law; became constitution of the unitedGerman people 3 October 1990


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Electricity:
capacity: 115,430,000 kW
production: 493 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 5,683 kWh



Olympic Factoid
The volunteer staff of the 1996 Olympic Games totaled 50,152. They worked an estimated 850,000 shifts.