In the 1860s, Otto von Bismarck, then Minister President of Prussia, provoked three short, decisive wars against Denmark, Austria, and France, aligning the smaller German states behind Prussia in its defeat of France. In 1871 he unified Germany into a nation-state, forming the German Empire.
Germany has placed in the top five countries every year since the first ranking in 2016 and this year secured fourth place for the second year in a row; however, back in 2016, the country topped the ranking. Germany received an overall score of 96,5 out of 100.
The name Germany and the other similar-sounding names above are all derived from the Latin Germania, of the 3rd century BC, a word simply describing fertile land behind the limes.
But the country described above is none other than Germany, Europe's industrial powerhouse and the world's second largest exporter; a country whose economy has single-handedly stopped the eurozone falling back into recession and the only nation rich enough to save the euro.
With an interesting and rich history narrated by the old-fashion and colorful architecture, castles, palaces, cathedrals and monuments themselves, its landscapes, mountains and forests, delicious food and beer, Germany remains one of the top destinations in the world for travelers.
Germany is Europe's most industrialised and populous country. Famed for its technological achievements, it has also produced some of Europe's most celebrated composers, philosophers and poets. Germany rebounded to become the continent's economic giant, and a prime mover of European cooperation.
The reason why German is most likely called Alemania in Spanish and Allemagne in French is due to the Alemanni tribes of Germany that were one of the largest cultural groups of the region in the late period of the Roman Empire and early era of the Medieval Period.
The three principal partners in the Axis alliance were Germany, Italy, and Japan. These three countries recognized German domination over most of continental Europe; Italian domination over the Mediterranean Sea; and Japanese domination over East Asia and the Pacific.
Germany. Germany is a member country of the EU since January 1, 1958 with its geographic size of 357,376 km², and population number 81,197,537, as per 2015. The Germans comprise 16% of the total EU population. Its capital is Berlin and the official language is German.
The Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) has 16 states (German: Bundesländer, singular: Bundesland).
German, a Germanic language, is especially widely used in central and southern Namibia and was until 1990 one of three official languages in what was then South West Africa, alongside Afrikaans and English, two other Germanic languages in Namibia.
For a country to be considered landlocked, it must be completely enclosed by land governed by other countries or only have coastal access to a closed sea. While only two of these countries lie outside of the continents of Europe, Asia, and Africa, Germany is not one of them, despite errant claims that it is.
Federal Republic of Germany
Germany's climate is moderate and has generally no longer periods of cold or hot weather. Northwestern and coastal Germany have a maritime influenced climate which is characterized by warm summers and mild cloudy winters.
The city states of Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen were the states with the three highest crime rates in Germany in 2019, while the federal state of Bavaria had the lowest.
In the 2020 Global Peace Index, Germany is ranked 16 out of 163 countries when it comes to safety and peace in the country. In Europe, Germany is ranked 11 out of 36 countries.
What is the language of Germany?
The Germans (German: Deutsche) are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe who share a common German ancestry, culture, and history. German is the shared mother tongue of a substantial majority of the ethnic Germans.
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich until 1943 and Greater German Reich in 1943–45, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country which they transformed into a dictatorship.
The German Navy was the second largest in the world in 1914. It had 17 dreadnoughts, 20 battleships, 5 battlecruisers, 7 modern light cruisers and 18 older cruisers. Germany also had 30 petrol-powered submarines and 10 diesel-powered U-boats, with 17 more under construction.
