Population: 3.5 million Average Precipitation High: 70-75 (Jun) Average Precipitation Low: 30-35 (Feb) Top 3 Albums:         1.  "Hot Shot" by Shaggy         2.  "Double Wide" by Uncle Kracker        3.  "Schiller" by Weltreise Top 3 Singles:          1.  "Follow Me" by Uncle Kracker         2.  "In The Air Tonight" by Lil' Kim & Phil Collins         3.  "Eternal Flame" by Atomic Kitten Top North American Single: "Follow Me" by Uncle Kracker Music Info Source: German Mark (DEM) Currency Used: Charts Team 18-Aug-01 Major School: Humboldt University of Berlin Place to Have Fun: Tiergarten - Capital & largest city - One of Europe's major industrial & cultural centre - Most important city in Germany - 1945-1990, divided Berlin - US, Britain, France & USSR took a zone each - 1990, collapse of Communism reunified Germany - Forests & farmland cover 1/3 of city - Berlin lost almost ¾ of its 1.5 mil residential units due to WWII - 1961, East & West Berlin divided by Berlin Wall - Mid-1990's, home to over 400 000 foreigners - Protestants make up Berlin's major religious group, 950 000 members - Soccer national sport - Since reuniting, problems w/ housing, growing unemployment - Protestant 45%, Roman Catholic 37%, unaffiliated or other 18% - German 91.5%, Turkish 2.4%, Italians 0.7%, Greeks 0.4%, Poles 0.4%, other 4.6% - Literacy: 99%

- So far north, dark by mid afternoon in December, but sun shines till almost 10 PM in June - Life in Berlin traces back as far as 8000 BC - The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.