Key Figures & Facts
State
Democratic parliamentary federal
democracy since 1949
Capital city
Berlin, 3.4 million inhabitants
Three horizontal stripes in black, red, gold
Stylized eagle
Motto: Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit
"Unity and Justice and Freedom"
Anthem
Third verse of August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben's "Das Lied der Deutschen" to a melody by Joseph Haydn "Kaiserhymne"
State holiday
October 3, Day of German Unity
Parliament
Bundestag (16th legislative period: 613 MPs)
Time zone
CET/CEST
Currency
Germany is a member of the Eurozone, EUR 1 = 100 cents
Phone dial code
+49
Internet TLD
.de (one of the ten most frequent top-level domains)
Official language
German. German is the mother tongue of 100 million people. German is the mother tongue spoken most frequently in the European Union