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Population: 82398000
Area: 357021km²
Longitude / Latitude: 10.5 / 51.5
Capital: Berlin
Currency: Euro (EUR)
Country dialing code: 49
Weights & Measures system: Metric
Electricity: 230V, 50Hz
Government type: Federal republic
Chancellor: Angela Merkel
President: Horst Köhler

Religions:

34% Protestant, 34% Catholic, 4% Muslim, 28% unaffiliated or other. There are at least 105,000 Jews, most of them post-1990 immigrants from the former Soviet Union (the pre-Holocaust figure was over half a million).

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