Germany

The country calling code for Germany is +49. Country calling codes identify the destination country when placing an international call. The international access prefix used to leave your originating country varies by telephone network. On mobile phones, the + symbol is generally used instead. After the country code, dial the local Germany number, dropping any leading zero used for domestic dialling.

Germany is assigned DE as its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and DEU as its alpha-3 code. Alpha-2 codes are the two-letter codes used in web addresses, currency pairs and shipping forms. Alpha-3 codes are the three-letter codes used in banking, aviation and international standards work. The internet country code top-level domain for Germany is .de. ISO country codes are standardized identifiers, but they can change when countries or territories undergo changes in international status or classification.

The official currency of Germany is the Euro, with the ISO 4217 code EUR and the symbol €. Prices, salaries and official accounts inside Germany are quoted in EUR. Exchange rates move daily, so check a live rate before converting rather than relying on a figure you saw last week.

The primary time zone for Germany is +01:00, currently UTC+01:00. The clock reads from your own device, so it follows daylight saving rather than showing a fixed offset.

The capital of Germany is Berlin. Germany sits in Europe, specifically the Central Europe subregion. Its approximate centre point is 51.00000000, 9.00000000. Traffic in Germany drives on the right. Languages recorded for Germany: German.

Germany shares a land border with 9 countries: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland and Switzerland. Land borders are not the same as nearest countries: a country across a narrow strait can be closer than one you share a fence with. The nearby page ranks countries by straight-line distance instead.