Country · since 1991

Germany

Germany appears on the map from 1991 to today. At its greatest recorded extent, in 1991, it covered about 360,601 km².

One of the realms of German Empire and Germany. The German Empire was proclaimed at Versailles in January 1871, after Prussia under Otto von Bismarck defeated France and united the German states except Austria. It quickly became Europe's leading industrial and scientific power and gained colonies in Africa and the Pacific, where a rising in German South West Africa was crushed in the genocide of the Herero and Nama.

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On the map

1991 – today

Greatest extent

1991, about 360,601 km²

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Wikipedia: Germany · Wikidata Q183