Germany
POPULATION 83,251,851
ROMAN CATHOLIC 34.8 percent
EVANGELICAL CHURCH IN GERMANY (EKD) 34.4 percent
EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCHES 1.8 percent
OTHER CHRISTIAN 1.8 percent
OTHER RELIGIONS 3.2 percent
NO RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION 24.0 percent
Country Overview
Introduction
The Federal Republic of Germany is located in Central Europe between the Rhine River in the southwest, the Oder and Neisse Rivers in the east, the North and Baltic Seas in the north, and the Alpine foothills in the south. Lowland is predominant in the north, and in the middle and south are wood-covered low mountain ranges, such as the Harz and Black Forest. Germany borders on France and the Benelux countries (Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg) in the west, on Denmark in the north, on Poland, the Czech Republic, and Austria in the east, and again on Austria and also Switzerland in the south. The German-speaking area transcends the German borders. Most parts of the country are economically highly developed.
Historically Germany has been influenced by a variety of regional traditions, which built the ground for principalities formed in the Middle Ages. These principalities became subdivisional territories of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation and were reorganized in the early 1800s. Since 1871 the princely territories have been federal states of the German Empire.
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