Top 10 Facts About Germany

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1. Germans love their bread; in fact there are more than 300 different kinds of bread in Germany. There is even a bread museum.

2. Germans are the third largest beer consumers in the world (per capita), after the Czech Republic and Austria. In Bavaria Beer is also considered a food.

3. ADIDAS was found by the Bavarian Adolf “Adi” Dassler, his brother Rudolf Dassler founded Puma.

4. The German Autobahn is the densest highway system in the world and also the only in Europe without general speed limits.

5. The German Johannes von Gutenberg invented the first printing press. The first printed book was the Lutheran bible.

6. German is the official language of 5 countries: Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein. It is also spoken in Northern Italy and the French provinces of Alsace and Lorraine. (fun fact: the longest word published in the german Language is: Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft (79 letters))

7. The Cologne Cathedral (Kölner Dom) took 632 years to build, is over 150 metres long (480 ft.) and more than 85 metres (280 ft.) wide. It can hold 40,000 people.

8. Germany is the 7th biggest country in Europe but the one with the biggest population (80,7 million).

9. Fanta originated in Germany as a result of difficulties importing Coca-Cola syrup into Nazi Germany during WWII.

10. Berlin the capital of is the 5th largest city in Europe by population but is eight times bigger as Paris (in area) and has more bridges than Venice.