In geography, central Germany (Zentraldeutschland/Mitteldeutschland) describes the areas surrounding the central point of modern-day Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

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The town of Niederdorla

Niederdorla

Niederdorla is a municipality in the Unstrut-Hainich district of Thuringia, Germany. It is the geographical center of Germany. Its nearest main city is Erfurt, which is also t the capital city of Thuringia.- People from Niederdorla :...

, in the state of Thuringia

Thuringia

The Free State of Thuringia is a state of Germany, located in the central part of the country.It has an area of and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of Germany's sixteen states....

, claims to be the most central town in Germany. A plaque was erected and a lime tree

Tilia

Tilia is a genus of about 30 species of trees native throughout most of the temperate Northern Hemisphere. The greatest species diversity is found in Asia, and the genus also occurs in Europe and eastern North America, but not western North America...

 planted there after the 1990 German reunification

German reunification

German reunification was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany , and when Berlin reunited into a single city, as provided by its then Grundgesetz constitution Article 23. The start of this process is commonly referred by Germans as die...

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The German Central Uplands

Central Uplands

The Central Uplands is one of the three major natural regions of Germany and covers most of the land area of the country. To the north lies the North German Plain or Northern Lowland; to the south, the Alps and the Alpine Foreland.- Formation :...

 (Mittelgebirgsschwelle) is an area of low mountains and hills, comprising numerous individual ranges, in central Germany - in between the North German Plain

North German plain

The North German Plain or Northern Lowland is one of the major geographical regions of Germany. It is the German part of the North European Plain...

 and the South German Scarplands

South German Scarplands

The South German Scarplands is a geological and geomorphological natural region or landscape in Switzerland and the south German states of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg...

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See also

• Central Germany (linguistics)
  Central German
  Central German is a group of High German dialects spoken from the Rhineland in the west to the former eastern territories of Germany.-History:...
  
  
• Central Germany (cultural area), often an area within the modern states of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia