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Germany
Guide to Germany’s Winter Olympics
Germany is the fifth largest country in the Olympics behind USA,
Canada, Russia, and Switzerland
Athletes
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Athletes
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Switzerland
Germany
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USA
Canada
Russia
Map of Germany
Germany’s rival
Germany ha s a soccer rival with England in the
Summer Olympics.
Winter Olympics
• Germany does all the Winter Olympics.
• Including speed skating and Nordic combined
Fun facts
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Germany is Europe's largest economy.
There are bread museums.
2% of Germans do not own cell phones
Gummy bears were invented by a German
Berlin is 9 times bigger than Paris.
Germany has 400 zoos.
There are 400 castles in Germany
More fun facts
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Germany is known as the Holy Roman Empire
German is the official language of 5 countries
Berlin has the largest train station in Europe
German is spoken by more than 100million
people world wide
A funny word
• This is the longest word in German
Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetri
ebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft (79
letters). Try saying that five times fast. lol
J.F.K speaking German
Legend has it that when JFK went to Germany
he said Ich bin ein Berliner which means I am
a jelly donut.
Sites
Wikipedia.org_german_football_rivalry
Sochi2014.com
Confessedtravelholic.com