Germany (a nation or civilization occupying the country around the Rhine, Elbe, and upper Danube Rivers in Central Europe, taken as a whole under its various governments); Germany (a country in Central Europe, formed in 1949 as West Germany, with its provisional capital Bonn until 1990, when it incorporated East Germany)
West Germany, Federal Republic of Germany (a former country in Central Europe, distinguished from the German Democratic Republic, commonly known as East Germany)