Bordering Countries
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Austria
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Belgium
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Czechia
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Denmark
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France
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Luxembourg
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Netherlands
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Poland
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Switzerland
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Bordering Seas and Oceans
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Baltic Sea
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North Sea
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Rivers
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Elbe
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Rhine
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Danube
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Montain Ranges and Chains
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Alps
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Population
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Biggest Cities
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3,669,491
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Berlin
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1,847,253
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Hamburg
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1,484,226
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Munich
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1,087,863
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Cologne
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763,380
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Frankfurt am Main
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Fact
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Other Cities
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City that doesn't exist, according to the Internet
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Bielefeld
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Former capital of the Federal Republic of Germany
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Bonn
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City of famous WII trials
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Nuremberg
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Home of the football team called 'Borussia'
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Dortmund
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'Cradle of the automobile'
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Stuttgart
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Description
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Regions
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Historical region split between Poland and Germany
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Pomerania
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Largest German state by land area
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Bavaria
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Territory governed by France under a League of Nations mandate after 1920
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Saarland
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Desctiption
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Monuments
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Best known Berlin Wall crossing point
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Checkpoint Charlie
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Named world's best amusement park since 2014
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Europa Park
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Castle built in honor of Richard Wagner
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Neuschwanstein Castle
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Description
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Natural Wonders
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National Park named after the forested mountain range in which it is located
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Black Forest National Park
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Lake at the border between Switzerland and Germany
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Constance Lake
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Link with City
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Famous People
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Leipzig: this compositor was buried there
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J.S. Bach
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Kiel: this father of quantum theory was teacher there
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Max Planck
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Aachen: this emperor throned there
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Charlemagne
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Link with CIty
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Pieces of Art
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Bayreuth: this music drama is played each year in this city as part of the Wagner's Ring cycle
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Die Walküre
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Bremen: this Grimms' fairy tale tells the story of four animal coming to this town
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Town Musicians of Bremen
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East-Berlin: in this movie starring Daniel Brühl, a mother falls into coma shortly before the November revolution
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Good Bye, Lenin!
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Date
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Battles
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9: Roman defeat against Germanic peoples
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Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
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1945: aerial destruction of a city
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Bombing of Dresden
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Underrated map though