When the former GDR was reunited with West Germany, the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany increased by 43 percent from 249,000 square kilometres to 357,000 square kilometres, and the population at the time grew by 26 percent from around 62 million to 78.2 million. Baden-Württemberg "We can do anything.Subscribe Now Home Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture Money Videos Germany, country of north-central Europe. Although Germany existed as a loose polity of Germanic-speaking peoples for millennia, a united German nation in roughly its present form dates only to 1871. The geography of Germany generally consists of four regions: the North German Plain, the Central Uplands, the Southern German Scarplands, and the Bavarian Alps.
Germany has a number of large cities; the most populous are: Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt, and Stuttgart. The largest conurbation is the Rhine-Ruhr region (12 million), including Düsseldorf (the capital of North Rhine-Westphalia ), Cologne, Essen, Dortmund, Duisburg, and Bochum .
The List of Municipalities Information System (GV-ISys) lists every politically independent municipality in Germany.How many states of Germany are there? Germany consists of 16 federal states, which you can see listed below. Bayern (Bavaria), Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) and Baden-Württemberg are the largest federal states and Bremen is the smallest federal state. Here is a list of states in Germany: Berlin Bayern (Bavaria) Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony)lM4T.