Berlin
About Berlin
Berlin is the capital of Germany, as well as its largest city by both area and population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the highest population within its city limits of any city in the European Union. The city is also one of the states of Germany, being the third-smallest state in the country by area. Berlin is surrounded by the state of Brandenburg, bordering Brandenburg's capital Potsdam to the southwest. The urban area of Berlin has a population of over 4.6 million, making it the most populous in Germany. The Berlin-Brandenburg capital region has around 6.2 million inhabitants and is Germany's second-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr region, as well as the fifth-biggest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union.
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The last piece of Nazi architecture in Berlin is a 12,650 tonne concrete cylinder, and they can't get rid of it because it's so big and sits next to train tracks and apartment buildings, so they can't blow it up.
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More facts about Berlin
When the Berlin Wall fell, one of the results was an 18 million car traffic jam.
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When the Berlin Wall came down, Angela Merkel was having a sauna, because it was Thursday and Thursday was her sauna day, so that's where she went.
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David Bowie was such an extreme party animal that he had to go to Berlin to get the drugs out of his system.
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Coordinates: 52.5200, 13.4050