which countries do germany border?
Netherlands Czech Republic Salzburg Denmark Poland Luxembourg France Belgium Austria Switzerland
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 Germany is in Western and Central Europe , with Denmark bordering to the north , Poland and the Czech Republic to the east , Austria to the southeast , Switzerland to the south @-@ southwest , France , Luxembourg and Belgium lie to the west , and the Netherlands to the northwest . It lies mostly between latitudes 47 ° and 55 ° N and longitudes 5 ° and 16 ° E. Germany is also bordered by the North Sea and , at the north @-@ northeast , by the Baltic Sea . With Switzerland and Austria , Germany also shares a border on the fresh @-@ water Lake Constance , the third largest lake in Central Europe . German territory covers 357 @,@ 021 km2 ( 137 @,@ 847 sq mi ) , consisting of 349 @,@ 223 km2 ( 134 @,@ 836 sq mi ) of land and 7 @,@ 798 km2 ( 3 @,@ 011 sq mi ) of water . It is the seventh largest country by area in Europe and the 62nd largest in the world . 

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 Germany was affected by the European migrant crisis in 2015 as it became the final destination of choice for most migrants entering the EU . The country took in over a million refugees and developed a quota system which redistributed migrants around its federal states based on their tax income and existing population density . 

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 = = = Between Paris and Berlin = = = 

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 With the issuance of the Berlin Declaration on 5 June 1945 and later creation of the Allied Control Council , the four Allied powers temporarily assumed governance of Germany . At the Potsdam Conference in August 1945 , the Allies arranged for the Allied occupation and denazification of the country . Germany was split into four zones , each occupied by one of the Allied powers , who drew reparations from their zone . Since most of the industrial areas were in the western zones , the Soviet Union was transferred additional reparations . The Allied Control Council disestablished Prussia on 20 May 1947 . Aid to Germany began arriving from the United States under the Marshall Plan in 1948 . The occupation lasted until 1949 , when the countries of East Germany and West Germany were created . Germany finalised her border with Poland by signing the Treaty of Warsaw ( 1970 ) . Germany remained divided until 1990 , when the Allies renounced all claims to German territory with the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany , under which Germany also renounced claims to territories lost during World War II . 

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 = = = Reunified Germany and EU = = = 
