Germany is located in central Europe. As a federal state, the Federal Republic of Germany is made up of the 16 countries and represents the most recent form of the German Nation state. Germany has a total of nine neighboring states: Denmark, Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands. This… Read More »
The secondary sector absorbs 33% of the workforce and contributes approx. 30% to the formation of the GDP, values higher than those of most developed countries. As regards the resources of the subsoil, Germany is traditionally rich in coal (deposits of Ruhr, Saarland, Aachen, Zwickhau-Ölsnitz) and lignite (North Rhine-Westphalia, North Hesse, Upper Palatinate, Leipzig-Halle-Bitterfeld area-… Read More »
For most Norwegians, Dresden is probably not known as a large tourist city, but in the old days the city had a completely different status. Until World War II, it was considered the most beautiful city on the continent throughout Europe, which abruptly changed when it was completely ruined by bombings towards the end of… Read More »