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Barby (Elbe) (Saxony-Anhalt)
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.
Barby is a town in the district of Schonebeck, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated on the left bank of the Elbe, near the confluence with the Saale, approximately 25 kilometers southeast of Magdeburg. Barby is part of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Elbe-Saale. Saxony-Anhalt is one of the sixteen Bundeslander that make up the Federal Republic of Germany. It has an area of 20,447 square kilometers, and a population of 2.6 million. Its capital is Magdeburg. The state's name is sometimes spelled Saxony Anhalt in English without the hyphen.
Presently, Barby experiences a sharp social, economic and population growth derivative of the strategic position of the locality and the high level of well-being and quality of life that is enjoyed with respect to other places of Germany.
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