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| Federal Republic of Germany Bundesrepublik Deutschland Timeline: Nihon no heiwa | ||||||
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| Anthem: Das Lied der Deutschen "Song of the Germans" |
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 West Germany (green)
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| Capital | Bonn | |||||
| Official languages | German | |||||
| Demonym | West German | |||||
| Government | Federal parliamentary republic | |||||
| - | President | Max Otte | ||||
| - | Chancellor | Annalena Baerbock | ||||
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| - | Allied occupation of Germany | 1945–1949 | ||||
| - | Establishment | 23 May 1949 | ||||
| - | Member of PATO | 17 July 1953 | ||||
| - | Creation of EEC | 25 March 1957 | ||||
| - | Admitted to the U.N. | 18 September 1973 | ||||
| Population | ||||||
| - | 2022 estimate | 56,214,450 | ||||
| Currency | West German mark (DEM) |
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| Drives on the | Right | |||||
West Germany (German: West Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a country in Central Europe. It borders Denmark and Hanover to the north; East Germany and Czechoslovakia to the east; Austria and Switzerland to the south; and France, Saar, Luxembourg, Wallonia, and the Netherlands to the west. The nation's capital is Bonn, the largest city is Hamburg, and its financial centre is Frankfurt; the largest urban area is the Ruhr.
Various Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical antiquity. A region named Germania was documented before AD 100. In the 10th century, German territories formed a central part of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th century, northern German regions became the centre of the Protestant Reformation. During the Napoleonic Wars, Napoleon invaded the Holy Roman Empire and established the Confederation of the Rhine and several other puppet states, although they would initially collapse after Napoleon's loss. However, the idea of German unity arose, and after two confederations and wars with Austria and France, the German Empire was formed in 1871.
After colonial expansions in the late 19th century, it was thrown against the Allied powers in World War I, and ultimately lost, resulting in the foundation of a republic. In the 1920s, a financial crisis struck the country, and only worsened with the Great Depression in the early 1930s. Ultimately, the dissatisfaction with the government lead to the rise of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party, indirectly leading to World War II in 1939 when the Nazi regime invaded Poland to get old lands back, and to begin the major extermination of Jews. After the war, Germany was divided into occupation zones, which then evolved into the modern-day Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).