Discover Germany

Germany sits at the geographic and economic center of Europe, bordered by nine countries and shaped by a 20th-century history that split the nation in two before reunification in 1990. It combines Europe's largest economy with a genuinely wide range of landscapes, from North Sea coastline to the Bavarian Alps.

The country's regional differences are pronounced -- Berlin's reunified, still-evolving character contrasts sharply with Bavaria's alpine villages and beer-hall traditions, while the Rhine Valley's castle-lined vineyards and the industrial Ruhr region each represent a different, equally real side of the country.

Germany's road and rail network, including the famously speed-unrestricted Autobahn, makes moving between these regions genuinely easy, and its strong environmental and public-transit culture shapes how both visitors and residents get around.