Der Spiegel. The World Factbook. Location: This entry identifies the country's regional location, neighboring countries, and adjacent bodies of water.
Central Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, between the Netherlands and Poland, south of Denmark Geographic coordinates: This entry includes rounded latitude and longitude figures for the centroid or center point of a country expressed in degrees and minutes; it is based on the locations provided in the Geographic Names Server (GNS), maintained by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency on behalf of the US Board on Geographic Names.
Map references: This entry includes the name of the Factbook reference map on which a country may be found. Deutsche Welle. Bild. SPIEGEL ONLINE. The Local.