Facts and figures

Our relations in numbers:

315,000 workplaces offered by German companies in Britain.

300,000 Germans work and live in Britain.

484 partnerships between British and German towns and cities.

14,130 Germans study in Britain.

1781 Brits study in Germany.

18,600 British soldiers are based in Germany. (Include civilians and their families, and the number rises to 42,000.)

Germany has 19 honorary consuls in Britain.

Britain has 7 honorary consuls in Germany.

Germany exports goods worth 24.8 billion Euro to Britain each year.

Britain exports goods worth 39.1 billion Euro to Germany each year.

Germany is Britain's most important trading partner.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague and German Foreign Affairs Minister Guido Westerwelle (R) during a General Affairs Council meeting at the European Council, in Brussels, Belgium on 26 July 2010

Bilateral relationships Germany-UK

Germany and the United Kingdom have close and wide-ranging relations based on mutual trust. Here is an overview of political, economic and cultural relations.

EU-Jubiläumsfeier - Europafest

Town Twinning

Aberdeen and Regensburg, Liverpool and Cologne, Swansea and Mannheim, Woking and Rastatt - who are you twinned with? 

Facts and figures