Berlin capital; Surface 891.75 km ²; Population 3.398.362

Berlin is simultaneously the capital of Germany and a federated state (region of Germany). The city is confused geographically with the state, that is surrounded totally by the one by Brandeburgo, of which separated in 1920.
Crossed by the Spree river and located to little 70 km of the border between Germany and Poland, Berlin is the city more populated and extensive of the country, center of a metropolitan area of 3.950.887 inhabitants (2005), as well as one of most outstanding in the political scope of European Unión (UE), of which, after the city of London, it is the second bigger capital.
The foundations of his deserved fame as European center of the culture is guaranteed thanks to the call “island of the museums”, its three opera houses, the Filarmónica Orchestra, its cinemas and theaters, the Festival the International of Cinema, its three universities, the four schools of Beautiful Arts and the 250 extrauniversity research centers. After being destroyed in a 90% by the pumps during World War II, the city was divided in two zones. The allies took the west, traditional districts of bars, stores and hotels, whereas the Soviets occupied the Eastern part, where are the districts of the old imperial city.
The most typical stamp of old western Berlin is the seat formed by zoological and the ruins of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche (Church in Memory of the Káiser Guillermo); devastated by an English bombing in 1943 and at the moment monument to La Paz. Towards the east, it is arrived at the door of Brandenburgo, to the building of the Reichstag and to which it was the wall of Berlin.
In the zone of the old Eastern sector, the most important avenue, the Unter den Linden is opened, that leads to us from the Door of Branderburgo to the place where they are most of points of interest like the Museum of German History, the Deutscher Sunday (German cathedral), the Hugenottenmuseum (Museum of hugonotes) and the Altes Museum (Old Museum). The federated state of Berlin is divided from 2001 in 12 administrative districts that group to the 23 previous ones of the following form (of the west to this and north to the south.