{"id":54,"date":"2009-03-23T20:54:28","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T01:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/?p=54"},"modified":"2017-11-13T13:39:21","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T13:39:21","slug":"some-interesting-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/some-interesting-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Interesting Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Hallo,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Do you know how many neighbors Germany has? Or maybe you&#8217;d like to know the name of its highest mountain. Look no further because I have put this short list of facts together for you; hopefully you&#8217;ll find them just as interesting as I did!<\/p>\n<ol type=\"1\">\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>Bev\u00f6lkerung<\/em><\/span><\/strong> (population) &#8211; about 82.3 millions <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Einwohner<\/strong> <\/em><\/span>(inhabitants); the largest population in Europe<\/li>\n<li>16 <strong><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Bundesl\u00e4nder<\/span><\/em><\/strong> (federal states)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><em>Nationalfeiertag<\/em><\/strong> <\/span>(State holiday) &#8211; October 3 (day of German Unity)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Deutsch<\/span><\/em><\/strong> (German) is the <strong><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Muttersprache<\/span><\/em><\/strong> (mother tongue) of over 100 million people<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Gr\u00f6\u00dfte <\/strong><strong>St\u00e4dte<\/strong><\/em><\/span> (largest cities):\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><em><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Berlin<\/span><\/strong><\/em> &#8211; 3.4 million inhabitants<\/li>\n<li><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Hamburg<\/strong><\/span><\/em> &#8211; 1.8 million<\/li>\n<li><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>M\u00fcnchen<\/strong><\/span><\/em> (Munich) &#8211; 1.3 million<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><em>K\u00f6ln<\/em> <\/strong><\/span>(Cologne) &#8211; 1 million<\/li>\n<li><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Frankfurt am Main<\/strong><\/span><\/em> &#8211; 662,000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>H\u00f6chster Berg<\/em><\/span><\/strong> (highest mountain) &#8211; The Zugspitze 2963 m (9,718 ft)<\/li>\n<li><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>L\u00e4ngste <\/strong><strong>Fl\u00fcsse<\/strong><\/span><\/em> (longest rivers):\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Rhein<\/strong><\/em><\/span> &#8211; 865 km (537 miles)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Elbe<\/strong><\/em><\/span> &#8211; 700 km (435 miles)<\/li>\n<li><em><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Donau<\/span><\/strong><\/em> 647 km (402 miles)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Germany is located in the heart of Europe and has 9 <strong><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Nachbarstaaten<\/span><\/em> <\/strong>(neighbors):\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><em>Frankreich<\/em><\/strong> <\/span>(France)<\/li>\n<li><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>\u00d6sterreich<\/strong> <\/span><\/em>(Austria)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Belgien<\/span><\/em><\/strong> (Belgium)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Tschechien<\/span><\/em><\/strong> (Czech Republic)<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>D\u00e4nemark<\/em><\/span><\/strong> (Denmark)<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>Luxemburg<\/em><\/span><\/strong> (Luxembourg)<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>Polen<\/em><\/span><\/strong> (Poland)<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>Niederlande<\/em><\/span><\/strong> (The Netherlands)<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>Schweiz<\/em><\/span><\/strong> (Switzerland)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>There are around 300 theaters, 130 <strong><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Berufsorchester<\/span><\/em><\/strong> (professional orchestras), and 500 <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><em>Kunstmuseen<\/em><\/strong> <\/span>(art museums)<\/li>\n<li>Every tenth book that is published worldwide is written in German!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tatsachen-ueber-deutschland.de\/en\/federal-states\/content\/background-1\/the-german-language.html?type=1000&amp;no_cache=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/03\/images.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><p>Hallo, Do you know how many neighbors Germany has? Or maybe you&#8217;d like to know the name of its highest mountain. Look no further because I have put this short list of facts together for you; hopefully you&#8217;ll find them just as interesting as I did! Bev\u00f6lkerung (population) &#8211; about 82.3 millions Einwohner (inhabitants)&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/some-interesting-facts\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8820,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/8820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}