2. Germany
•The Official name is Federal Republic of Germany.
• It consist 16 states.
•The Capital of Germany is Berlin.
•Joachim Gauck is the President of Germany
•Euro is the Currency of Germany
3. • The ‘loose association of territories that preceded
the creation of the modern German state.’ (Tim Kirk)
• After the Treaty of Westphalia (1648) which ended
the Thirty Years War there were still 234 territories
and 51 ‘Imperial Cities’.
• The Holy Roman Empire was formally dissolved on 6
August 1806 by the Treaty of Press burg, after the
defeat of Austria by Napoleon
4. • Annual growth rate: (2011 est.) 2.7%
• Unemployment rate: (2011 est.) 5.5%
• Inflation rate: (2011 est.) 2.5%
• Gross domestic product grew by 2.7%
• GDP (2011 est.) $3.2 trillion
• A Mercedes-Benz car. Germany was the world's leading exporter of
goods from 2003 to 2008.
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6. • The official language of Germany is Standard
German, with over 95% of the country speaking
Standard German or German dialects as their first
language.
Minority first languages include:
• Sorbian 0.09%
• Romani 0.08%
• Danish 0.06%
• North Frisian 0.01%
7. Germany's television market is the largest in
Europe, with some 34 million TV household. Around
90% of German households have cable or satellite
TV, and viewers can choose from a variety of free-to-
view public and commercial channels.
Germany is home to some of the world's largest
media conglomerates.
8. • 64.1 percent of the German population belongs to
Christian denominations.
• 31.4 percent are Roman Catholic, and
• 32.7 percent are affiliated with Protestantism.
9. • Germany has been the home of many
famous inventors and engineers such as, Konrad Zuse, who
built the first computer and Albert Einstein who developed
the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution
in physics and others.
10. A popular German saying has the meaning:
"Breakfast like an emperor, lunch like a king, and dinner like a
beggar."
Breakfast is usually a selection of breads and rolls with jam and honey
or cold meats and cheese, sometimes accompanied by a boiled egg.
11. • Sport forms an integral part of German life. Twenty-seven
million Germans are members of a sports club and an additional
twelve million pursue such an activity individually. Association
football is the most popular sport.
Other popular spectator sports
include handball, volleyball, basketball, ice hockey, and tennis.
Germany is one of the leading motorsports countries in the
world. Race-winning cars, teams and drivers have come from
Germany.
12. Born in Ulm, Germany, Albert Einstein (1879–1955) is one of the
most famous scientist and mathematician who contributed to our
understanding of the physical reality. He won the Nobel Prize for
Physics in 1921 "for his services to Theoretical Physics.
Einstein, also called 20th century Genius.
13. Adolf Hitler born in 20 April 1889 was an Austrian
born German politician and the leader of
the National Socialist German Workers Party. He
was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to
1945, and dictator of Nazi Germany Hitler is
commonly associated with the rise of Fascism in
Europe, World war II and the Holocaust
14. • The great father of blue jeans, Levi Strauss, was a German
entrepreneur, born in 1829. In 1873, he patented the
process of putting rivets in pants for strength, and the
world's first jeans - Levi's® jeans - were born. Today, the
Levi's® trademark is one of the most recognized in the
world and is registered in more than 160 countries
