34.Weird fact. Michael Jackson dangled his son from the balcony of a hotel that is in Berlin.
35. Kids can drink beer and wine in public at 13! In fact, drinking in public in Germany is legal, much to the envy of many other parts of the world.
10 Fun Facts About German Food
36.The Crazy Ice-cream Maker (Der verrückte Eismacher) in Munich has the strangest ice creams you could think of, including fries with ice cream, and flavors like bacon, beer, cannabis and even pregnancy (flavored with a combination of pickles and Nutella)!
Bayerisches National Museum, Munich. Image credit – digital cat
37. Sauerkraut was originally an accompaniment for meat and potatoes, and not for fish!
38. German beer is famous, but you can’t ignore the wine. Visit the Apple Wine Festival in Frankfurt to find out more!
39. The quintessential German fast food is doner kebap – which is really a Turkish dish.
Denmark, Poland, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Austria, France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
Currency
Euro (€) (EUR)
Religion
Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism.
Life expectancy at birth
81.9 years (2024 est.)
Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.
Suffrage
18 years of age; universal
Demonym
German
Government type
federal parliamentary republic
President
Frank-Walter Steinmeier
Chancellor
Friedrich Merz
National holiday
Unity Day, 3 October (1990)
National symbol
golden eagle
National colors
black, red, yellow
National anthem
"Das Lied der Deutschen" (Song of the Germans)
Climate
temperate and marine; cool, cloudy, wet winters and summers; occasional warm mountain (foehn) wind
Terrain
lowlands in north, uplands in center, Bavarian Alps in south
Coastline
2,389 km
Mean elevation
263 m
Lowest point
Neuendorf bei Wilster -3.5 m
Highest point
Zugspitze 2,963 m
Natural resources
coal, lignite, natural gas, iron ore, copper, nickel, uranium, potash, salt, construction materials, timber, arable land
Agricultural land
48%
Birth rate
8.9 births/1,000 population (2024 est.)
Death rate
12 deaths/1,000 population (2024 est.)
Sex ratio
1.05 male(s)/female (2024 est.)
Industries
among the world's largest and most technologically advanced producers of iron, steel, coal, cement, chemicals, machinery, vehicles, machine tools, electronics, automobiles, food and beverages, shipbuilding, textiles
Exports
$1.949 trillion (2024 est.)
cars and vehicle parts, packaged medicines, aircraft, medical cultures/vaccines, industrial machinery (2019)
Imports
$1.774 trillion (2024 est.)
cars and vehicle parts, packaged medicines, crude petroleum, refined petroleum, medical cultures/vaccines (2019)
