D 10178 Berlin Alexanderplatz 60m, Capital and government seat of the Federal Republic of Germany as well as the largest city of Germany. Berlin is 1 of the 16 states of Germany and the centre of the metropolitan area Berlin Brandenburg. View in direction southeast along the Alexanderstreet to Alexanderplace. The place is called in the vernacular shortly Alex and was named in the year of 1805 after the russian Czar Alexander I. Presented by https://www.berlin.de/.