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Kleve
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.
Kleve occasionally referred to in English as Cleves, is a city in the north-west of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany, near the Dutch border and the river Rhine. In 2002, the population of the city was 49,398 and an area of 97.72 square kilometers. Today it belongs to and is capital of the district of Kleve. The name Kleve derives from the word cliff, as the Schwanenburg, where the dukes of Cleves resided, was founded on a steep hill. The old fort has a massive tower, the Schwanenturm 180 feet high that is associated in legend with the Knights of the Swan, immortalized in Richard Wagner's Lohengrin.
The mineral waters of Kleve and the wooded parkland surrounding it made it a stylish spa in the 19th century. Kleve suffered heavy bombing during the Second World War, with over 90 percent of buildings in the city severely damaged. It is a city with endless recreational opportunities, rich history, and modern day luxuries.
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