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Braunschweig
Germany is located in Central Europe and it shares borders with Denmark in the North, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France in the West, Austria and Switzerland in the South and Poland and the Czech Republic in the East. The North Sea and the Baltic Sea represent additional National Borders in the North. The official language of Germany is German and Berlin is the capital. The climate is quite pleasant with almost all variety of seasonal flavors as temperate, marine, cool, cloudy, wet winters and summers, occasional warm, tropical foehn wind and high relative humidity.
Germany is divided into 16 states which are further subdivided into 439 districts and cities. Germany is one of the largest European economy and the third largest economy in the world in real terms, placed behind the United States and Japan, and fifth behind the United States, China, India and Japan counted by purchasing power parity.
Braunschweig is a city of 245,500 people, located in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the Oker River, which connects to the North Sea via the rivers Aller and Weser. The historic English name for Braunschweig is Brunswick, or Brunswiek, Low Saxon.
Braunschweig has been an important industrial area. Today it is known for its University and research institutes, like the Federal Agricultural Research Centre and the PTB, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt. The PTB Braunschweig maintains the atomic clock responsible for the DCF77 time signal and the official German time. Also located in Braunschweig is the Martino-Katharineum, a secondary school founded in 1415. It had such famous pupils as Carl Friedrich Gauss, Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Richard Dedekind and Louis Spohr.
Braunschweig is famous for Till Eulenspiegel, a medieval jester who played many practical jokes on its citizens. It also had and still has many breweries, and still a very peculiar kind of beer is made called Mumme, first quoted in 1390, a malt-extract that was shipped all over the world. As it is often regarded as among the most beautiful parts of Germany, it is one of the most visited places amongst the most die-hard travelers the world over.
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