Germany is the second most populous and the largest economy in Europe. Being the World’s fourth-largest economy following the United States, China, and Japan and third-largest exporter and the third-largest importer of goods, there are technically 74 ports in Germany. Its major export partners are the US (9% of the total exports), France (8%), China, the UK and the Netherlands (7%), Italy, Austria and Poland (5%), Switzerland (4%), and Belgium, Spain and Czech Republic (3%).