State: Democratic parliamentary federal democracy since 1949

Capital city: Berlin, 3.4 million inhabitants

National flag: Three horizontal stripes in black, red, gold

Emblem: Stylized eagle

Anthem: Third verse by August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben ”Das Lied der Deutschen” to a melody by Joseph Haydn “Kaiserhymne“.

State holiday: October 3, Day of German Unity

Parliament: Bundestag (16th legislative period: 614 MPs)

Time zone: CET/CEST

Currency: Germany is a member of the Eurozone, EUR 1 = 100 cents

Phone dial code: +49

Internet TLD: .de (one of the ten most frequent top-level domains)

Official language: German. German is the mother tongue of 100 million people. German is the mother tongue spoken most frequently in the European Union