Top 10 Facts About Germany
The Top Ten
1 The capital of Berlin has more bridges than Venice –
Berlin boasts 960 bridges and 59.8 square kilometres of water consisting
of lakes and around 180 kilometres of navigable waterways
2 Germany has legal say on what babies can be named –
German law ban names that don’t denote a gender or use a family name as a
first name
3 In 2014, the most popular children's names were
Sophie/Sofie for a girl and Maximilian for a boy
4 College education in Germany is free even for internationals
– tuition fees for bachelor’s degrees in public universities was
abolished in 2014
5 Germany's capital centre has shifted seven times: Aachen, Regensburg, Frankfurt-am-Main, Nuremberg, Berlin,
Weimar, Bonn (and East Berlin), and, since 1990, Berlin again
6 Berlin's Zoologischer Garten is the largest zoo in the world
– Germany also boasts more than 400 registered zoos
Been there. Felt like a maze.
7 Germany is the EU's largest economy – with a gross
domestic product (GDP) of EUR 3.49 trillion (USD 3.84 trillion), and
lies fourth place in the world behind the US, China and Japan
8 Germany is one of the world's leading book nations
9 Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany since 2005, was ranked as the world's second most powerful person – in Forbes
magazine in 2012, Merkel became the highest female ranking ever
In 2009, Mattel celebrated 50 years of Barbie by producing an Angela Merkel
Barbie doll
10 About two-thirds of the population are Christian, but you'll find more Protestants in the north
and more Catholics in the south. There are around 4 million Muslims and
100,000 Jews
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