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Published January 8, 2009, 1:18 pm, Scoop.co.nz

Geography Area: 357,000 sq. km. (137,821 sq. mi.); about the size of Montana. Cities: Capital --Berlin (population about 3.4 million). Other cities --Hamburg (1.7 million), Munich (1.2 million), Cologne (964,000), Frankfurt (644,000), Essen (603,000), Dortmund (592,000), Stuttgart (582,000), Dusseldorf (568,000), Bremen (543,000), Hanover (516,000).

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