Stone+tec Exhibition, Nuremberg-Germany 17-20 June 2026

Destination Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, a Nations Online country profile of the sovereign state in Central Europe.
Germany borders the North Sea, the Baltic Sea, and Denmark to the north, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France to the west, Switzerland, and Austria in the south, the Czechia and Poland in the east. Additionally, it shares maritime borders with Sweden and the United Kingdom.
An area of 357,022 km² makes Germany the seventh-largest country in Europe, compared; it is about two-thirds the size of France, or slightly smaller than the US state of Montana.
Germany has a population of 83,2 million people (2020); the capital and largest city is Berlin, with about 3.3 million inhabitants.

Germany’s economic freedom score is 76.1, making its economy the 16th freest in the 2022 Index. Germany is ranked 11th among 45 countries in the Europe region, and its overall score is above the regional and world averages. Germany’s economic growth slowed from 2017 through 2019, turned negative in 2020, and resumed at a modest level in 2021. However, the country’s lackluster trend of economic freedom over the past five years has brightened Boosted by substantial score increases in rule of law (property rights, judicial effectiveness, and government integrity), Germany has recorded a 2.3-point overall gain in economic freedom since 2017 and has moved into the upper half of the “Mostly Free” category for the first time in the history of the Index. Fiscal health and business freedom are robust, but scores for government spending and tax burden remain low.