| | Germany - Geography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | At its widest, Germany measures approximately 650 kilometers from the Belgian-German border in the west to the Polish frontier in the east. |
 | | After a close vote, in 1993 the Bundestag, the lower house of Germany's parliament, voted to transfer the capital from Bonn in the west to Berlin, a city-state in the east surrounded by the Land of Brandenburg. |
 | | Geographers often divide Germany into four distinct topographic regions: the North German Lowland; the Central German Uplands; Southern Germany; and the Alpine Foreland and the Alps. |
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