Germany Travel Guide

De: Anthony Noland

Narrado por: Jason Zenobia

The largest country in Central Europe and most populous EU state is Germany. It's bordered to the east by the Czech Republic and Poland, to the north by Denmark, to the west by Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and France, and to the south by Austria and Switzerland. Germany is subdivided into 16 politically powerful states that sometimes correspond to historic regions predating a unified German state, while they sometimes randomly throw vastly different peoples into the same state while separating them from their more similar kin across state lines.

Germany has historically been and still is politically, economically, and culturally influential and the largest EU member state by population and economic output. Known around the world for German engineering as well as world-leading banking and insurance companies, it is equally admired by visitors for its old-world charm and Gemütlichkeit (cosiness). Discard any perceptions of Germany as simply homogeneous, and a country of surprising regional diversity awaits.

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