Germany fact file

It has a population of 82.3 million people.

The official language spoken is German.

The capital city is Berlin, which has a population of around 3.5 million.

Football is Germany’s most popular sport. The country has won the Fifa World Cup four times.

Germans love sausage – they have 1,500 different kinds.

Some of the world’s most famous philosophers and composers were born in Germany.