Localisation: Central Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, between the Netherlands and Poland, south of Denmark
Coordonnées géographiques: 51° 0' N, 9° 0' E
Côte: 2,389 km km
Climat: temperate and marine; cool, cloudy, wet winters and summers; occasional warm mountain (foehn) wind
Relief: lowlands in north, uplands in center, Bavarian Alps in south
Sommets: lowest point: Neuendorf bei Wilster -3.54 m highest point: Zugspitze 2,963 m
Risques naturels: flooding
Monnaie: euro (EUR)
Population: 82,422,299 (July 2006 est.)
Langues: German
Capitale: Berlin
Découpage administratif: 13 states (Laender, singular - Land) and 3 free states* (Freistaaten, singular - Freistaat); Baden-Wuerttemberg, Bayern*, Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Hessen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland, Sachsen*, Sachsen-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, Thueringen*