Germany 🇩🇪

Germany lies in Western Europe, part of Europe. In formal use it is Federal Republic of Germany. Berlin is the capital.

Around 83.5 million people live there, placing it 19th of 249 by population — between Türkiye above it and Thailand below. Within Western Europe alone it is the 2nd largest of 8 and the 1st most populous.

By land area it covers 357,114 km², which ranks it 64th of the 249 countries and territories in this dataset — just behind Japan and just ahead of the Philippines. That makes it a little larger than the Philippines.

Spread across 357,114 km², that works out at about 234 people per square kilometre, which makes it densely populated. The median across all 249 entries here is about 91 per square kilometre.

The demonym is German, so residents are Germans.

The one official language is German. It shares that with Belgium, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Namibia.

Inside Europe it places 2nd of 53 by population, and it accounts for 44% of everyone living in Western Europe.

Within Western Europe, Germany is the most populous of the 8 entries this site lists, and 2nd by area. France is next in line by population.

Every entry in Western Europe has its own guide here, so if you want to work through the whole neighbourhood rather than one country at a time, France is the place to carry on.

• 🇫🇷 France
• 🇩🇪 Germany

Its reference point sits at 51.0° north and 9.0° east, which puts it in the northern hemisphere, roughly 5,677 km from the equator, in what geographers would call temperate latitudes.

It borders 9 neighbours: Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland and Switzerland. The largest of them by area is France, which is also the most populous. Together those neighbours hold about 170.7 million people.

Unlike its landlocked neighbours it reaches the sea directly, while also sharing land frontiers.

Put next to every other entry on this site, Germany ranks 64th of 249 by area and 19th by population. That works out at 0.24% of the combined land area of all 249 entries and 1.0% of their combined population. Those denominators matter: this list includes territories and dependencies as well as UN member states, so a rank here is not the same as a rank among sovereign countries.

For a sense of scale, the entries immediately either side of Germany in the size ordering are Japan at 377,930 km² and Philippines at 342,353 km², against Germany's 357,114 km². If you can already picture one of those, you can picture this one.

Density tells a different story from either raw figure. Germany averages 234 people per square kilometre of total area, which makes it densely settled by global standards — 66th of the 247 entries that have both a population and a measured area. Total area includes inland water, so the true figure for habitable land is higher than this.

Germany does not have the Euro to itself. It is one of 38 entries on this site that use the currency, whose code is EUR, and the others include listed below. A shared currency usually points at something real — a monetary union, a currency board, a former colonial administration, or a small economy pegging itself to a large neighbour's money — and it means a price quoted in EUR travels further than you might expect.

Language reaches wider still. German is listed for 5 entries here, Germany among them, so a visitor who speaks it can be understood across a large part of the map. Shared language tends to outlive the empires, trade routes and migrations that spread it, which is why the linguistic map and the political one rarely line up.

The currency is the Euro (€, EUR). That is a shared currency: 37 other entries use it, including Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria and Croatia.

Berlin is the seat of government and the answer most quizzes are looking for.

Its internet country code is .de. The international dialling code is +49. In ISO terms it is de in two letters and DEU in three.

As a sovereign state it is among the 192 UN members listed here. The other 57 entries are territories, dependencies or observers, which is why totals on this site run to 249 rather than the familiar 195.