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___MASK56___ , officially the Grand Duchy of ___MASK56___ , is a landlocked country in western Europe . It is bordered by ___MASK42___ to the west and north , ___MASK50___ to the east , and France to the south . Its capital , ___MASK56___ City , is , together with Brussels and Strasbourg , one of the three official capitals of the European Union and the seat of the European Court of Justice , the highest juridical authority in the EU . Its culture , people and languages are highly intertwined with its neighbors , making it essentially a mixture of French and Germanic cultures . The repeated invasions by its neighbor countries , especially in World War II , resulted in the country ' s strong will for mediation between France and ___MASK50___ and led to the foundation of the European Union . Brandenburg ( Lower Sorbian : " Bramborska ") is one of the sixteen federated states of ___MASK50___ . It lies in the northeast of the country covering an area of 29 , 478 square kilometers and has 2 . 48 million inhabitants . The capital and largest city is Potsdam . Brandenburg surrounds but does not include the national capital and city - state Berlin forming a metropolitan area . Berlin is the capital and the largest city of ___MASK50___ as well as one of its constituent 16 states . With a population of approximately 3 . 5 million people , Berlin is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union . Located in northeastern ___MASK50___ on the banks of rivers Spree and Havel , it is the centre of the Berlin - Brandenburg Metropolitan Region , which has about 6 million residents from more than 180 nations . Due to its location in the European Plain , Berlin is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate . Around one - third of the city ' s area is composed of forests , parks , gardens , rivers and lakes . Berlin Jungfernheide is a railway station located at Charlottenburg - Nord , in the Charlottenburg - Wilmersdorf district of Berlin , served by the S - Bahn lines S41 and S42 , the U - Bahn line U7 and Regional - Express trains of the Deutsche Bahn . Its name literally translates into `` maidens ' heathland '' ; it was named after what was once a large forest in the proximity of this station . In ___MASK50___ , Luxembourg and Austria , the Regional - Express ( RE , or in Austria : REX ) is a type of regional train . It is similar to a semi - fast train , with average speed at about 70  90 km / h ( top speed often 160 km / h ) as it calls at fewer stations than " Regionalbahn " or S - Bahn trains , but stops more often than " InterCity " services . The Regionalbahn ( abbreviated " RB ") is a type of local passenger train ( stopping train ) in ___MASK50___ . Deutsche Bahn AG ( abbreviated as " DB ", " DB AG " or " DBAG ") is a German railway company . Headquartered in Berlin , it is a private joint - stock company ( AG ), with the Federal Republic of ___MASK50___ being its single shareholder . Deutsche Bahn describes itself as the second - largest transport company in the world , after the German postal and logistics company Deutsche Post / DHL , and is the largest railway operator and infrastructure owner in Europe . It carries about two billion passengers each year . The Siemensstadt Housing Estate ( also known as " Ring Estate " or " Ringsiedlung ") is a nonprofit residential community in the Charlottenburg - Wilmersdorf district of Berlin . It is one of the six Modernist Housing Estates in Berlin recognized in July 2008 by UNESCO as a ___MASK3___ Heritage Site . Charlottenburg is an affluent locality of Berlin within the borough of Charlottenburg - Wilmersdorf . Established as a town in 1705 and named after late Sophia Charlotte of Hanover , Queen consort of ___MASK49___ , it is best known for Charlottenburg Palace , the largest surviving royal palace in Berlin , and the adjacent museums . ___MASK50___ , officially the Federal Republic of ___MASK50___ , is a federal parliamentary republic in central - western Europe . It includes 16 constituent states , covers an area of , and has a largely temperate seasonal climate . With about 82 million inhabitants , ___MASK50___ is the most populous member state of the European Union . After the United States , it is the second most popular immigration destination in the world . ___MASK50___ ' s capital and largest metropolis is Berlin . Other major cities include Hamburg , Munich , Cologne , Frankfurt , Stuttgart and Düsseldorf . Plötzensee Prison ( JVA Plötzensee ) is a men ' s prison in the Charlottenburg - Nord locality of Berlin with a capacity for 577 prisoners , operated by the State of Berlin judicial administration . The detention centre established in 1868 has a long history ; it became notorious during the Nazi era as one of the main sites of capital punishment , where about 3 , 000 inmates were executed . Famous inmates include East ___MASK50___ ' s last communist leader Egon Krenz . Charlottenburg - Nord is a locality (" ___MASK65___ ") in the northern part of the Charlottenburg - Wilmersdorf borough of Berlin , ___MASK50___ . It is chielfy composed of after - war housing estates , allotment gardens and commercial zones . The locality comprises the " Großsiedlung Siemensstadt ", part of the Berlin Modernism Housing Estates UNESCO World Heritage Site , as well as Plötzensee Prison . Siemensstadt is a locality (" ___MASK65___ ") of Berlin in the district (" Bezirk ") of Spandau . Berlin Modernism Housing Estates are an ensemble of six subsidized housing estates from the early 20th century , listed as a UNESCO ___MASK3___ Heritage Site . Dating mainly from the years of the ___MASK13___ ( 1919  1933 ), when the city of Berlin was particularly progressive socially , politically and culturally , they are outstanding examples of the building reform movement that contributed to improving housing and living conditions for people with low incomes through novel approaches to architecture and urban planning . The estates also provide exceptional examples of new urban and architectural typologies , featuring fresh design solutions , as well as technical and aesthetic innovations . Deutsche Post AG , operating under the trade name Deutsche Post DHL Group , is a German courier company and the ___MASK3___ ' s largest . With its headquarters in Bonn , the corporation has 467 , 088 employees ( FTE 421 , 270 ) in more than 220 countries and territories ___MASK7___ and generated revenue of € 56 . 63 billion in 2010 . Deutsche Post is the successor to the German mail authority Deutsche Bundespost , which was privatized in 1995 . Currently , 21 % of its shares are held by the state - owned KfW bank , 79 % are freely floating ; 65 . 6 % of which are held by institutional and 13 . 4 % by private investors . Since its privatization , Deutsche Post has significantly expanded its business area through acquisitions . Deutsche Post is listed in the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index . The ___MASK1___ ( EU ) is a political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe . It has an area of , and an estimated population of over 510 million . The EU has developed an internal single market through a standardised system of laws that apply in all member states . EU policies aim to ensure the free movement of people , goods , services , and capital within the internal market , enact legislation in justice and home affairs , and maintain common policies on trade , agriculture , fisheries , and regional development . Within the Schengen Area , passport controls have been abolished . A monetary union was established in 1999 and came into full force in 2002 , and is composed of 19 EU member states which use the euro currency . The Havel is a river in north - eastern ___MASK50___ , flowing through the German states of Mecklenburg - Vorpommern , Brandenburg , Berlin and Saxony - Anhalt . It is a right tributary of the Elbe river and long . However , the direct distance from its source to its mouth is only . The Spree is a river that flows through the ___MASK100___ , Brandenburg and Berlin states of ___MASK50___ , and in the Ústí nad Labem region of the Czech Republic . Approximately in length , it is a left bank tributary of the River Havel , which itself flows into the Elbe and then the North Sea . It is the river on which the original centre of Berlin was built .