<div style="float: right; margin: 0 0 1em 2em; width: 20em; text-align: right; font-size: 0.89em; font-family: lucida grande, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><!-- start of floated right section -->
<div style="border: 1px solid #ccd2d9; background: #f0f6fa; text-align: left; padding: 0.5em 1em; text-align: center;"><!-- start of slate grey box -->
<big>'''Germanic Europe'''</big>
<div align=center>
[[Image:Germanic europe small.png|200px|'''Germanic Europe'''<br> <font color="#7cdc87">'''Green:'''</font> Countries and regions where a Germanic language is the national language<br>
<font color="#05d3d1">'''Blue:'''</font> Countries and regions where a Germanic language is an official language]]
</div>
{| style="background: transparent; text-align: left; table-layout: auto; border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0; font-size: 100%;" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"
! style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | Area
| style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top" | ??,???,000 km²
|-
! style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | Population
| style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top" | ??,???,???
|-
! style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | Countries
| style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top" | [[Official language]]: 7<br>Co-Official: 7<br>Total: 14
|-
! style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | GDP
| style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top" | $?? Trillion ([[exchange rate]]) <br/>$?? Trillion ([[purchasing power parity]])
|-
! style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | Dependencies
| style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top" | ??
|-
! style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | Languages
| style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top" | [[English language|English]], [[German language|German]], [[Dutch language|Dutch]], [[Swedish language|Swedish]], [[Norwegian language|Norwegien]], [[Danish language|Danish]], [[Icelandic language|Icelandic]] and a few others
|-
! style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | Time Zones
| style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top" | GMT -1:00 ([[Reykjavik]], [[Iceland]]) to GMT +2:00 ([[Helsinki]], [[Finland]])
|-
! style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | Largest Cities
| style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top" | [[London]]<br/>[[Berlin]]<br/>[[Hamburg]]<br/>[[Stockholm]]<br/>[[Munich]]<br/>[[Copenhagen]]<br/>[[Dublin]]<br>[[Oslo]]
|-
|}
</div><!-- end of slate grey box -->
</div><!-- end of floated right section; article starts here -->
'''Germanic Europe''' is the part of [[Europe]] in which [[Germanic languages]] are predominant. Countries or areas in which such language is officially recognized and/or de facto spoken as a minority language are sometimes included ; this entire area corresponds more or less to [[North-Western Europe]] and western parts of [[Central Europe]].
In its widest sense, this region consists of [[Iceland]], [[Ireland]], the [[United Kingdom]], the [[Faroe Islands]], the [[Netherlands]], [[Denmark]], [[Sweden]], [[Norway]], the [[Finland-Swedish|Swedish-speaking]] [[municipalities of Finland|municipalities]] of [[Finland]], [[French Flanders]] and [[Alsace-Moselle]] in [[France]], [[Flanders]] and the smaller [[German-speaking Community of Belgium|German-speaking Community]] in [[Belgium]], the German-speaking part of [[Luxembourg]], [[Germany]], the formerly German parts of [[Poland]] as well as in [[East Prussia]] and the [[Baltic States]] [[Estonia]] and [[Latvia]], [[Liechtenstein]], the [[German-speaking part of Switzerland]], [[Austria]], and the [[South Tyrol]] autonomous province in [[Italy]]. At least parts of [[Scotland]], the [[Isle of Man]], [[Wales]], [[Cornwall]] and [[Northern Ireland]] in the UK as well as the [[Republic of Ireland]] belong historically and culturally mainly to [[Celtic Europe]].
The predominant religion in the majority of the region is [[Protestantism]]; the national churches of the United Kingdom, the [[Nordic countries]], the Netherlands, northern Germany, and parts of Switzerland are Protestant. At the same time, some parts of the region are [[Catholic]]: the Republic of Ireland, [[Scottish Highlands]] (and [[Glasgow]]), [[Northern England]] (also [[London]] and [[Norwich]]), southern Germany (particularly [[Bavaria]]), Austria, [[Religion in Belgium|Belgium]], the southern regions of the Netherlands, and central and southern Switzerland.
==Population==
{| class="infobox bordered" style="width:22em"
|-
|[[Image:Blair at the European Parliament 26-10-05.jpg|border|81px|[[Tony Blair]]]]
|[[Image:Diana, Princess of Wales.jpg|border|89px|<br><small>[[Diana, Princess of Wales]]]]
|[[Image:Edliner Mozart.jpg|border|97px|[[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]]]]
|[[Image:VanGogh 1887 Selbstbildnis.jpg|border|97px|[[Vincent van Gogh]]]]
|[[Image:Queen Sonja of Norway.jpg|border|88px|[[Queen Sonja of Norway]]]]
|-
|-
| colspan="5" align="center" | ''Notable Germanic Europeans''
|}
{{sectstub}}
===Demographics===
{{sectstub}}
==Language==
''Main Article: [[Germanic Languages]]''
'''Germanic languages''' are a group of related languages constituting a branch of the [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European (IE) language family]]. The common ancestor of all languages comprising this branch is [[Proto-Germanic]], spoken in approximately the latter mid-[[1st millennium BC]] in [[Jastorf culture|Iron Age Northern Europe]].
The largest Germanic languages are [[English language|English]] and [[German language|German]], with approximately 400 and 100 million native speakers respectively. The group consists of other major languages, such as [[Dutch language|Dutch]] with 22 and [[Afrikaans]] with over 16 million speakers; and the [[North Germanic languages]] including [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]], [[Danish language|Danish]], [[Swedish language|Swedish]], [[Icelandic language|Icelandic]], and [[Faroese language|Faroese]] with a combined total of about 20 million speakers.
===English===
[[Image:Influencegraph.PNG|right|thumb|220px|'''English''' Influences of Germanic Origin are to be at around 25%]]
'''English''' is a [[West Germanic languages|West Germanic language]] originating in [[England]], and the [[first language]] for most people in [[Australia]], [[Canada]], the [[Commonwealth Caribbean]], [[Ireland]], [[New Zealand]], the [[United Kingdom]] and the [[United States]] (also commonly known as the [[Anglosphere]]).
One of the consequences of the French influence is that the vocabulary of English is, to a certain extent, divided between those words which are [[Germanic languages|Germanic]] (mostly [[Old English language|Old English]]) and those which are "Latinate" (Latin-derived, either directly from Norman French or other Romance languages).
{{sectstub}}
==Religion==
{{sectstub}}
==Culture==
{{sectstub}}
==Music and Dance==
{{sectstub}}
==Economy==
{{sectstub}}
==Gallery==
<gallery>
Image:Houses of Parliament 2 db.jpg|[[London]]
Image:Routemaster Bus, Piccadilly Circus.jpg|[[London]]
Image:Berlin U Rths Neuk 1.jpg|[[Berlin]]
Image:Munich skyline.jpg|[[Munich]]
Image:Amsterdam Munttoren 1900.jpg|[[Amsterdam]]
Image:1253-Amsterdam.jpg|[[Amsterdam]]
Image:Stockholm-Altstadt-(gamla-stan).jpg|[[Stockholm]]
Image:Stockholm old town 2002.jpg|[[Stockholm]]
Image:Bogstadveien.jpg|[[Oslo]]
Image:Oslo port.jpg|[[Oslo]]
Image:Nyhavn-Copenhagen.JPG|[[copenhagen]]
Image:Reykjavík séð úr Hallgrímskirkju.jpeg|[[Reykjavik]]
</gallery>
<br>
==See also==
* [[Germania]]
* [[Germanic peoples]]
* [[Limes Germanicus]]
* [[Scandinavia]]
* [[Latin Europe]]
==Resources==
{{Germanic Europe}}
[[Category:Europe]]
[[Category:Germanic culture]]
[[ar:أوروبا الجرمانية]]
[[nl:Germaans Europa]]
[[no:Germansk Europa]]
[[ro:Europa germanică]]
This site is not affiliated with or endorsed in any way by the Wikimedia Foundation or any of its affiliates. In fact, we fucking despise them.
|
