Germany

Germany is a country in central Europe and a member of the European Union.

Germany is one of the biggest countries in Europe. It goes from the high mountains of the Alps (highest point: the Zugspitze at 2,962 m) in the south, to the North Sea and Baltic Sea in the north. Between the mountains and the sea are the large forests of the middle part of Germany, and the very low and flat parts of northern Germany (lowest point: Neuendorfer/ Wilstermarsch at -3.54 m). Germany also has parts of Europe's biggest and most important rivers, such as the Rhine, Danube and Elbe.

Germany is where many people important in culture were born: composers such as Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, and Wagner; poets such as Goethe, Schiller, Heine and Lessing or Brecht; philosophers including Kant, Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche; and scientists including Einstein, Born, Heisenberg and Planck. It was also where the Bauhaus movement started.

Berlin is most populer city in Germany.