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Where We Work --> Germany
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Quick Facts:
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Languages: German
Religion:
Protestant 34%
Evangelical 3%
Roman Catholic 33%
Non-religious/other 27%
Muslim 3.7%
Time Zone: GMT +1 hours
Currency: Euros
Population: 82 Million
Income/person/year: $28,280
Urban population: 82%
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Overview:
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Germany is roughly the size of Montana and located even farther
north. Extending 853 km from
its northern border with Denmark to the Alps in the south, it is the
sixth largest country in Europe. At its widest, Germany measures approximately
650 km from the Belgian/German border in the west to the Polish
frontier in the east. The territory of former East Germany (divided
into five new Länder,
or states, in 1990) accounts for almost one-third of Germany's
territory and one-fifth of its population.
In 1993
the Bundestag, the lower house of Germany's parliament,
elected to transfer
the capital from Bonn in the west to Berlin, a city-state in the east
surrounded by the Land of Brandenburg.
With its irregular, elongated shape, Germany provides an excellent
example of a recurring sequence of landforms found the world over. A
plain dotted with lakes, moors, marshes, and heaths retreats from the
sea and reaches inland, where it becomes a landscape of hills crisscrossed
by streams, rivers, and valleys. These hills lead upward, gradually
forming high plateaus and woodlands and eventually climaxing in spectacular
mountain ranges.
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We Are Doing Here:
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Southwest Germany is the location of the
eDOT
Lab, where eDOT administration and most technical support
personnel are located. All of our Computer
Literacy and Resource
Development projects are coordinated from this site.
To see what else GEM
is doing in Germany
click here.
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