Berlin (deu)

Berlin

Berlin ranks 11th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Vienna, Brooklyn, and Tokyo. Memorable people born in Berlin include Frederick the Great, Alexander von Humboldt, and Marlene Dietrich. Memorable people who died in Berlin include Adolf Hitler, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and Rosa Luxemburg. Berlin has been the birth place of many politicians and writers and the death place of many politicians and writers. Berlin is located in Germany.

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population. Its more than 3.85 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, as measured by population within city limits. Simultaneously, the city is one of the states of Germany and is the third smallest state in the country in terms of area. Berlin is surrounded by the state of Brandenburg, and Brandenburg's capital Potsdam is nearby. The urban area of Berlin has a population of 4.5 million and is therefore the most populous urban area 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, and the fifth-biggest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. Read more on Wikipedia