_*Defense Forces #_Branches: NA
_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 136,311; NA fit for military service
_#Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP % @Germany *Geography #_Total area: 356,910 km2; land area: 349,520 km2; comprises the formerly separate Federal Republic of Germany, the German Democratic Republic, and Berlin following formal unification on 3 October 1990
_#_Comparative area: slightly smaller than Montana
_#_Land boundaries: 3,790 km total; Austria 784 km, Belgium 167 km, Czechoslovakia 815 km, Denmark 68 km, France 451 km, Luxembourg 138 km, Netherlands 577 km, Poland 456 km, Switzerland 334 km
_#_Coastline: 2,389 km
_#_Maritime claims:
Continental shelf: 200 m (depth) or to depth of exploitation;
Exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm;
Territorial sea: North Sea and Schleswig-Holstein coast of
Baltic Sea—3 nm (extends, at one point, to 16 nm in the
Helgolander Bucht); remainder of Baltic Sea—12 nm