The Federal Republic of Germany, referred to as Germany, is bordered by Denmark to the north, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France to the west, Switzerland and Austria to the south, the Czech Republic and Poland to the east, composed of 16 federal oblasts, the capital is Berlin, the territory area is 357167 square kilometers, the population of about 81.1 million people, is the most populous country in Europe. Germany is the largest economy in Europe, one of the founding members of the European Union, and an important member of INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS SUCH AS NATO, the Schengen Convention, the Group of Seven, and the United Nations.
1. In Germany, which has a land area of less than 360,000 square kilometers, there are more than 80 cities with a population of more than 100,000, and 4 cities with a population of more than one million, namely Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Cologne.
2. The capital Berlin is the largest city in Germany, but also the political and cultural center of Germany, as the world's top cultural city and an important cultural and artistic exchange center, Berlin has cultural festivals almost all year round.
3, it turns out that the old-fashioned Germans can also make comedies, and the funny performance of German movie star Martina Hill has brought us infinite joy!
4. On October 3, 1990, the reconstructed Berlin Wall was only 70 meters long.
5. As one of the most prosperous cities in the world, Munich still retains the quaint style of the capital of the Bavarian Kingdom, so today's Munich is also known as the "village of a million people".
6, Germans eat pork world first, according to statistics, Germans consume 150 pounds of pork per capita per year, from the types of more than 1500 kinds of sausages alone, you can see one or two.
7. The Wittelsbach Palace, which evolved from a water castle in 1385, was once the residence of the Dukes, Electors and Kings of Bavaria, and is one of the most important palace art museums in Europe today.
8, Oktoberfest, London Oktoberfest, the United States Denver Oktoberfest, is the world's three most famous beer festivals, since October 12, 1810, every year in Munich as scheduled, is the most grand festival in Munich.
9. In Germany, it is not possible to transmit restaurant cuisine to the Internet without the permission of the chef.
10. Hamburg is one of the richest cities in Europe, known as "Germany's gateway to the world", and is also the world's second largest aircraft production base, on September 1, 2018, the seventh "China Times" event opened here.
11. Grimm's fairy tales were compiled by Jacob Green and his younger brother William Green, collecting folk fairy tales, and have changed manuscripts more than 700 times.
12. Bremen, Germany, a fortune-500 global city, the city emblem is a gothic silver key, which is said to be a symbol of Peter, one of the twelve apostles of Jesus. So there is also a proverb in Bremen: Hamburg is the door to the world, Bremen is the key to this door.
13, in Germany, beverage bottles, cans and other garbage have a special place to recycle, but also can be cashed back, a hundred years of garbage classification history, but really not random cover!
14. In 1848, in Cologne, Germany, Marx and Engels founded the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, the world's earliest Marxist newspaper.
15. Frankfurt has 324 banks and 770 insurance companies in the city, operating 85% of Germany's stock trading, and is an important financial service center in Germany and even Europe.
16. The great writer Goethe and the author of "Anne Frank" who are familiar to us were both born in Frankfurt, so frankfurt university is also known as goethe university, and in Germany's annual city potential ranking, Frankfurt has been at the top of the list for three consecutive years.
17. Stuttgart, which is famous for its high-tech enterprises, has given birth to the world's most outstanding car brands and is also the headquarters of many large international companies, such as Mercedes-Benz manufacturers Daimler, Porsche, Bosch, HP, IBM and so on.
18, Germany is known as the inventor of the automobile, in fact, there is some luck in it, because in the same year, Britain, Russia and Italy also built cars!
19. Düsseldorf, located on the Rhine, is the logistics center of Europe, and the Düsseldorf International Boat Exhibition is one of the largest exhibitions in the world of boats and boats, and also the largest boat exhibition in Europe.
20. In 1974, the 10th World Cup was held in West Germany, and it was at that time that the Westphalia Stadium in Dortmund was built and now becomes the home of the Hornets Dortmund team.
21, Germany has a population of more than 80 million, creating more than 2,300 world brands, but the Germans with the world's top kitchen utensils will never understand what "a little salt" in Chinese recipes means!
22, Germans work extremely flexibly, as long as the guarantee of 8 hours a day working hours is good, so many Germans are more than 7 am to the company, around 4 pm to go home.
23, most of the high-speed in Germany is unlimited speed, but occasionally there will be temporary speed measurement, walking on the streets of Germany, full of Volkswagen golf, or Mercedes-Benz taxis.
24, the original Germany also has fakes, it is said that the United Kingdom in order to ensure the quality of their own products, strongly require Germans to note Made in Germany on the product, but did not expect, but achieved high quality in Germany!
25, located on Alexanderplatz, the Berlin Hotel, 123.2 meters high, is the second tallest building in Berlin, and the first highest is not far from it, the Berlin TV Tower built in 1969, the height of the building is 45 meters higher than the Eiffel Tower.
26, Cologne, Germany, famous for its Romanesque churches and Gothic cathedrals, took more than 600 years to build cologne cathedrals, so it is also jokingly called a permanent construction site, Cologne cathedral includes five halls and an altar, the altar cross, is the oldest and most famous treasure in Europe's large-scale sculpture.
27. As the cultural center of North Germany, Hamburg not only has the Baroque St. Michael's Church, but also the Colbrandt Highway Bridge, which is known as the "first of a hundred bridges", and the most proud of Hamburgers is the University of Hamburg, built in 1919, ranking fifth in the world!
28. According to the survey data of the University of Northern Ireland, the average IQ of Germans has reached 107, ranking first in Europe.
29, in Germany, it is very rare to want to blow air conditioning happily in the summer, and it may also be because of the hot weather, the German train is not on time, which is a very common thing!
30. The size of Munich's publishing industry is second only to that of New York, where the 1900 newspaper The Mars was published and printed.
31. Stuttgart means horse farm in German, because in ancient times it was a horse farm for princes and nobles, and it is for this reason that the coat of arms of Stuttgart is a black horse, many years before the Prancing Horse N, ferrari's symbol.
32, Germany's convenience stores open at 9 a.m., close at 6 p.m., and have a two-hour lunch break in between, and only half a day on Saturday mornings and all day off on Sundays.
33 As a developed country, Germans do not seem to have much yearning for big cities, and even more than half of them live in rural areas.
34, in Germany, there are more flower shops than supermarket convenience stores, and there is no wet market in Germany, and if you want to buy vegetables, you can only go to the supermarket.
35 German primary schools only need to go to four years to graduate, in other words, a 10-year-old German child is actually a junior high school student.
36, Germans are very fond of cats, according to statistics, Germany has 14.7 million pet cats, about one-fifth of the German population, almost every 6 Germans, will raise a kitten.