Smaller than the state of Montana

but has 90x as many people!

30% of Germany is Forested

Germany's tallest mountain is the Zugspitze, 

at 9,718 feet

mild summers and wet winters

mainly temperate

primarily ethnic German (91.5 percent)

About 75 percent of Germans living in cities.

Many ethnic Germans have emigrated from eastern 

European nations in search of work.

German is the official language

Though Germany is mainly cities, some parts are used for farming

significant percentage of some metropolitan populations.

Most Germans own cars, that is very important to Germans

Public transportation and bikes are more efficient for daily travel in cities

Trains connect to most cities and towns

AD 100: Germanic peoples begin to migrate and conquer Roman territories

Minority groups include those from Turkey (2.4 percent), the former Yugoslavia, Italy, Greece, and Poland.

Before being defeated by the Allied forces in 1945, the [German] Nazis occupied much of the continent, killing huge numbers of people, including six million Jews and many gypsies, homosexuals, and mentally disabled people, whom they considered unfit for society.

Uplands - Central

Wide Valley and Gorge - Southwest

Mountains and Plateus - South

Latitude:52.31Longitude:13.24

North of France, West of Poland, South of Denmark

ProQuest. (2010). Germany. CultureGrams World Edition. 

Retrieved May, 15, 2013, from 

http://online.culturegrams.com/world/world_country.php?

contid=5&wmn=Europe&cid=60&cn=Germany

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