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Location: Germany is located in the centre of Europe.  It shares boundaries with Denmark and the Baltic Sea (north), Poland and the Czech Republic (east)  Austria (southeast), Switzerland (south), France (southwest), Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands (west), and the North Sea (northwest). Germany’s capital city is Berlin which is located in the northeastern part of the country. Germany is somewhat smaller than the state of Montana, with a total area of 137,847 square miles and is the 6th largest country in Europe. Place: The climate in Germany is moderate. Daytime temperatures average around 25 °C to 30°C in summer (June- September). Coldest months are December, January, and February; Temperatures can quickly drop well below zero. Winters are cooler in the North and colder in the South. The country’s time zone is the Central European Time. Between the end of March and end of October time is identical to the South African time. During the German winter half year the clocks in Germany are set back for 1 hour. media type="custom" key="10286051"
 * **-Germany- ** [[image:germany-flag-screensaver.jpg width="360" height="253" align="center"]]
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**Region**: The population estimated in June of 2011 was 81,471,834 which: 66% of the population is made up by people from 15-64 years while 13% is from 0-14 and 20% 65 years and over. Life expectancy (2011 est.): About 74% of the population resides in urban areas. 99% of men and women have at least the basic education they need. Germany is dived into 16 which states 4 of them are free states. The country is run by the President Christian Wulff since June 2010, and his term is for 5 years. Germany has a parliamentary system government and is a member of the European Union. Since 1999 the currency used in Germany is the Euro. Germany is one of the many countries that agreed to use this type of money in order to be more efficient. Languages spoken: Religion Ethnic groups: German 91.5%, Turkish 2.4%, other 6.1% (made up largely of Greek, Italian, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish) Germany can be devided into several topographic regions: **The North German Lowland: ** This flat, lowland terrain is sectioned by numerous bogs, rivers and streams, and is mostly used as farmland. It includes the North Sea Coast, the Wadden Sea, and the Baltic Sea Coast. It is part of the Great European Plain that reaches from the Pyrenees in France to the Ural Mountains in Russia. **<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Central German Uplands ** <span style="color: #696969; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Large forests, rifts and valleys form part of the Central European Uplands that reach from the Massif Central in France to the mountain ranges in Eastern Europe. T he higher elevations are usually forested and the lower-lying areas are used for dairy farming and production of grain, fruit, vege tables or potatoes. Here it is found the famous Black Forest with its peak "Feldberg". **<span style="color: #cd5c5c; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Rhine River Valley ** <span style="color: #696969; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The Rhine is Germany's longest and most important river. The fertile river valley formed the backbone of the Western Roman Empire, of the Carolingian Empire and later became the central axis of the Holy Roman Empire. The Rhine, Main, and Neckar river valleys enjoy a sunny, dry and warm climate. They provide excellent conditions for vineyard agriculture and produce wine of world fame. **<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Alpine Foreland ** <span style="color: #696969; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The Alpine Foreland is characterized by rolling green hills. There are many glacial lakes in the foreland, the Chiemsee, the Starnberger See and the Ammersee being the larger ones. Much of the whole region is pasture land and used for dairy farming or for sowing hardy crops. **<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The German Alps ** <span style="color: #696969; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The narrow fringe of mountains runs along the German border with Switzerland and Austria from Lake Bodensee in the west to Salzburg in Austria in the east. The Alpine region is primarily rural. In the beautiful green valleys with their quaint little villages between the mountain ranges and summits dairy farming is the main source of income.
 * 91.5% is German
 * 2.4% is Turkish
 * 6.1% is other (mainly Greek, Italian, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian and Spanish)
 * female: 82.44 years
 * male: 77.82 years
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">German 95%
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sorbian 0.09%
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Nordfriesland 0.01%
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Danish 0.06%
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Romani (indigenous language) 0.08%
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Turkish 1.8%
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Kurdish 0.3%
 * Protestant 34%
 * Roman Catholic 34%
 * Muslim 3.7%
 * Unaffiliated/other 28.3%

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Gemany's weather is usually cold, between 20 degree and 30 degree celcius in the summer time. So most people in Germany wear sweaters, also its very difficult to predict the weather there. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Germany's food, Not many people know this but Germany has made quite a lot of great foods. They've discovered the potato chip before WW1. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Germany had to make many other types of foods due to lack of budget, after losing WW1. They had to switch to a much more Russian cuisine, and made lots of soups and stews. Such as aalsupe (eel soup) or eintopf (seafood soup). These types of food were very popular in the city of Berlin and very low in cost. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Now Germnay has also become one of the greatest areas in history to make trades and buy products from. They've invented many things that we use today. They make high quality vehicles, such as Mercedes, BMW, Volkswagen, Porsche, Audi. These are some of the best selling cars today. However with these vehicles it takes a lot of stell and metals to make these. Which is horrible to the envioment. __**<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">BMW **__ __**Mercedes Benz**__ ||
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 * -**Where do you want to go within your country? Pick 4-5 “hot-spots” you will visit in one week and describe the following about each: What is it? Why is it important? What is the history of this place? Why do you want to go? How will you get there? Anything else you would like to share about it? ||

<span style="color: #3e831b; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 180%;">**L ü b e c k** <span style="color: #eb6f6f; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 110%;">﻿ Lübeck, the former capital and Queen City of the Hanseatic League, was founded in the 12th century and prospered until the 16th century as major trading center for northern Europe. The city is famous for its many Gothic buildings and its tasty marzipan. Despite the damage it suffered during the Second World War, the basic structure, public monuments, churches, salt storehouses, of the old city remains unmoved. Lubeck has been listed as a World Heritage Site since the mid-1980s <span style="color: #5c31af; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 110%;"><span style="color: #d54dc7; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 170%;">Marzipan <span style="color: #d54dc7; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 170%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">