Germany

Country page · DE · Aletheia

This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 12:27 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 8 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.

This page is being built. Everything below is a block that is in place and empty. Each one says which kind of empty it is, because those are different facts: nobody has looked yet is not the same claim as we looked and there was nothing, and this page will never let one stand in for the other.

Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.

Locator map of Germany. Germany is filled; surrounding countries are drawn in a dimmer tone and nothing is hidden behind them. No contested area from this source overlaps it. 9 parts of it are too small to draw at this scale and are not shown. View spans 4.2°E to 16.7°E and 46.6°N to 55.8°N. Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m.

Germany is filled. The 16 other countries reaching this view are drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.

Nothing is hatched because no disputed area in this source overlaps Germany. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.

9 parts of Germany in this source are smaller than a pixel at this scale and are not drawn. Nothing larger than that is missing, and they have not been enlarged to make them visible.

Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 51.2°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 4.2°E–16.7°E, 46.6°N–55.8°N.

Disputed areas

none listedNo disputed area in this source overlaps Germany. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.

  1. News sources

    3 sources from Germanyin Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is covered.

    • Der Spiegel
    • tagesschau (ARD)
    • DW News

    sources not yet assessed · state-affiliated source present

  2. Official alerts

    An official alerting source is connected for Germany: MeteoAlarm (EUMETNET).

    This says a source is connected — not whether any warning is in force right now. Open Alerts for that.

  3. National legislature

    Bundesrat ↗

    Wikidata P856 · authoritative source, but our checker could not reach it (many government sites block automated requests)

  4. Local time

    2 time zones.

    How many distinct clocks that is depends on the date. The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.

  5. Conditions at the capital

    Right now in Berlin

    21°C / 70°FLight rainwind 21 km/h / 13 mph

    Checked 12 minutes ago

    Conditions at the capital, not across the country.

    Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)

    Berlin, 2026-09-20Sunrise 6:48 AM · sunset 7:09 PM12h 21m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit

  6. At a glance

    ISO code
    DEUuncited
    Driving side
    rightcited
    Mains voltage
    230 Vcited
    Capital
    Berlin — de jure national capital (repeated row)cited
    Official language
    Germancited
    Plug types
    Type C (Europlug), Type F (Schuko)cited · letters are the IEC classification
    Official websites
    bund.de ↗This address now redirects to verwaltung.bund.de.service.bund.de ↗verwaltung.bund.de ↗From the source's "official website" statement, kept here because the site is a government portal. We have not tested whether it loads.uncited
    Country-branding site
    deutschland.de ↗Not a government portal.

  7. Population and economy

    Population

    Population of Germany: the UN's 2025 estimate is 83,491,249 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 2.9 fewer an hour. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.

    Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.

    Where this number comes from
    Base figure
    83,491,249 people
    For the year
    2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
    Compared with
    83,516,593 people in 2024
    Rate applied
    about 2.9 fewer an hour (-25,361 a year)
    How that rate was found
    The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
    Carried forward
    0 days beyond the base figure's date
    Source
    UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
    The source's own definition
    The values shown are midyear estimates.

    THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.

    Population
    83,491,2492025
    GDP
    5,050,922,925,0472025
    GDP per capita
    60,4962025
    Life expectancy at birth
    80.8 years2024
    Exports
    40.4%2025
    Imports
    38.1%2025

    Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source

  8. In this country's own words

    Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit
    the state's official mottovia Wikidata (CC0)
    Founded
    1949
    National anthem
    third stanza of the Deutschlandlied

    Everything in this section is quoted, with its source. Aletheia does not write about a country's history, culture or religion in its own words — where there is nothing to quote, there is no section.

  9. World Heritage Sites

    55 World Heritage Sitesshow all
    1. Aachen Cathedral · inscribed 1978
    2. Speyer Cathedral · inscribed 1981
    3. Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens and Residence Square · inscribed 1981
    4. Wieskirche · inscribed 1983
    5. Augustusburg and Falkenlust Palaces · inscribed 1984
    6. St Mary's Cathedral and St Michael's Church at Hildesheim · inscribed 1985
    7. Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St. Peter and Church of Our Lady in Trier UNESCO World Heritage Site · inscribed 1986
    8. Hanseatic City of Lübeck · inscribed 1987
    9. borders of the Roman Empire · inscribed 1987 · shared with United Kingdom
    10. Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin · inscribed 1990
    11. Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch · inscribed 1991
    12. Mines of Rammelsberg, Historic Town of Goslar and Upper Harz Water Management System · inscribed 1992
    13. Maulbronn Monastery · inscribed 1993
    14. Town of Bamberg · inscribed 1993
    15. Collegiate Church, Castle, and Old Town of Quedlinburg · inscribed 1994
    16. Völklingen Ironworks · inscribed 1994
    17. Messel pit · inscribed 1995
    18. Cologne Cathedral · inscribed 1996
    19. Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau · inscribed 1996
    20. Luther Memorials in Eisleben and Wittenberg · inscribed 1996
    21. Classical Weimar · inscribed 1998
    22. Museum Island · inscribed 1999
    23. Wartburg · inscribed 1999
    24. Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm · inscribed 2000
    25. Reichenau Island · inscribed 2000
    26. Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex · inscribed 2001
    27. Rhine Gorge · inscribed 2002
    28. Historic Centres of Stralsund and Wismar · inscribed 2002
    29. Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of Bremen · inscribed 2004

      The name shown for this site was not chosen. Two or more records carry an inscription-level number for it and give different names, so we show one of them without claiming it is the right one. It is unchosen, not known to be wrong.

    30. Muskau Park · inscribed 2004 · shared with Poland

      The name shown for this site was not chosen. Two or more records carry an inscription-level number for it and give different names, so we show one of them without claiming it is the right one. It is unchosen, not known to be wrong.

    31. Old town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof · inscribed 2006
    32. Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe · inscribed 2007 · shared with Albania, Austria and 15 more countries
    33. Berlin Modernism Housing Estates · inscribed 2008
    34. Wadden Sea · inscribed 2009 · shared with Denmark, Netherlands
    35. prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps · inscribed 2011 · shared with Austria, Switzerland and 3 more countries
    36. Fagus Factory · inscribed 2011
    37. Margravial Opera House · inscribed 2012
    38. Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe · inscribed 2013
    39. Princely Abbey of Corvey · inscribed 2014
    40. Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with Chilehaus · inscribed 2015
    41. Moravian Church Settlements · inscribed 2015 · shared with Denmark, United Kingdom, United States
    42. The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier · inscribed 2016 · shared with Argentina, Belgium and 4 more countries
    43. Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura · inscribed 2017
    44. Naumburg Cathedral · inscribed 2018
    45. Archaeological Border complex of Hedeby and the Danevirke · inscribed 2018
    46. Ore Mountain Mining Region · inscribed 2019 · shared with Czechia
    47. Water Management System of Augsburg · inscribed 2019
    48. Frontiers of the Roman Empire – The Danube Limes (Western Segment) · inscribed 2021 · shared with Austria, Slovakia
    49. The Great Spa Towns of Europe · inscribed 2021 · shared with Austria, Belgium and 4 more countries
    50. Artists' Colony in Darmstadt · inscribed 2021
    51. Lower German Limes · inscribed 2021 · shared with Netherlands
    52. ShUM Sites of Speyer, Worms and Mainz · inscribed 2021
    53. Jewish-Medieval Heritage of Erfurt · inscribed 2023
    54. Residence Ensemble Schwerin · inscribed 2024
    55. The Palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof, Schachen and Herrenchiemsee · inscribed 2025

    Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO

  10. Emergency numbers

    • 110listed as: police
    • 112

    Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.

    Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.

  11. Explore this country

  12. Regions

    First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates

  13. Currency

    EUR

News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.

← All countries

Pull to refresh