Germany - The Facts
- Full name: Federal Republic of Germany
- Population: 82.5 million (UN, 2005)
- Capital: Berlin
- Area: 357,027 sq km (137,849 sq miles)
- Major language: German
- Major religion: Christianity
- Life expectancy: 76 years (men), 81 years (women) (UN)
- Monetary unit: 1 euro = 100 cents
- Main exports: Motor vehicles, electrical machinery, metals
- GNI per capita: US $34,580 (World Bank, 2006)
- Internet domain: .de
- International dialling code: +49
- President: Horst Koehler
- Chancellor: Angela Merkel
- The press
- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - prestigious daily
- Sueddeutsche Zeitung - Munich-based daily
- Die Welt - Berlin-based daily
- Frankfurter Rundschau - Frankfurt am Main-based daily
- Handelsblatt - Duesseldorf-based financial daily
- Financial Times Deutschland - Hamburg-based financial daily
- Focus - weekly news magazine
- Der Spiegel - news weekly, English-language site
- Die Zeit - weekly
- Bild - mass-circulation daily
- The Local - Berlin-based, English-language
- Television
- ARD - organisation of regional public broadcasters; operates Das Erste, the main national public TV channel
- ZDF - operates second national public TV channel
- n-tv - commercial, rolling-news
- N24 - commercial, rolling news
- RTL - major commercial broadcaster, operates entertainment channels
- Deutsche Welle TV - Germany's international TV service, in German, English, Spanish
- Premiere - pay-TV operator
- Radio
- ARD - umbrella organisation of public radio services, including those of individual regions
- Deutschlandradio - operates national public stations Deutschlandfunk and Deutschlandradio Kultur, both offering current affairs and cultural programmes
- Deutsche Welle - international radio broadcaster, services in many languages
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