Germany
Updated: Oct 1, 2022
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Country Name
Germany, or officially the Federal Republic of Germany.
Location
Germany is a country in Central and Western Europe. Germany shares borders with nine European countries, Denmark in the north, Poland and the Czech Republic in the east, Switzerland (its only non-EU neighbor), Austria in the south, France in the southwest, and Belgium, Luxembourg, and The Netherlands in the west.

Capital
Berlin.
Reason for Naming
The English word Germany derives from the Latin Germania, which came into use after Julius Caesar adopted it for the people east of the Rhine. The German term Deutschland, originally dytiscid land ("the German lands") is derived from Deutsch, descended from Old High German diutisc "of the people" (from diot or diota which means "people"), originally used to distinguish the language of the common people from Latin and its Romance descendants.