... former: German Empire, German Republic, German Reich local long form: Bundesrepublik Deutschland Germany, the home of Oktoberfest, Mercedes Benz, and Dark Chocolate, is a 357,021 square kilometer nation with strategic location on the Northern European Plain and along the entrance to the Baltic Sea bordering: Austria, Belgium, The Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Luxembourg, Poland, and Switzerland. To give you a basic ... idea of Germany's size, it's about the size of Montana (yahoofacts, 2003) and with ... and became part of the EC (the predecessor to the EU) as well as NATO (North At...

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