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Germany is located in Western Europe, bordering the North Sea between France and Poland and sharing 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 is slightly smaller than Montana, with a total area of 137,847 square miles (357,021 square kilometers) and its capital is Berlin. The fall of the Berlin Wall in the late 1980s allowed the unification of East Germany and West Germany. Germany today is a federation of 16 Länder (states).

The population of Germany in 2006 was estimated at 82,422,299 and German is the official language. The Protestant Reformation began in Germany. Religious battles once turned Roman Catholics and Protestants against each other, but they now live peacefully side by side.

The euro replaced the deutsche mark as the official currency in 2002.

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• CIA: The World Factbook
• U.S Department of State
• The German Embassy in the U.S.

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