Germany
has a wide variety of cultures and landscapes among its
different länders (states). Geographically, Germany
is divided in five regions. In the North, "the plain"
zone, formed by flat, marshy extensions, high and dry
lakes and lands denominated "Geest". The North
Sea coast, where there is a series of small islands -
Oriental Frisian and Helgoland -, is dominated by the
mouth of the Elbe river, while the coast of the Baltic
Sea combines level and sandy zones with imposing cliffs.
Between both seas, there is a peninsula called "Holstein
Switzerland". Towards the south is the region of
the "middle mountains", that draw up to a natural
border between Northern and Southern Germany, and that
continue in the Alps spurs. In Germany there are beautiful
places such as the Constance lake, the Black Forest or
the Rhine valley, in addition to cities of enormous interest,
like Hamburg, Colony, Hannover, Munich, Frankfurt or Berlin,
that since it returned to be the capital of the country
has retaken its site like a renewed European cultural
centre.
Berlin
Baden-Würtemberg
Free
state of Bavaria
Hesse
Free
Hanseatic City of Hamburg
Rhineland-Palatinate
Lower
Saxony
Schleswig-Holstein
Frei
state of Thuringia
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