National Geographic is a German pay television channel dedicated to documentaries and factual programmes.

The channel was launched on 1 November 2004 on Kabel Deutschland's digital platform, broadcasting 24 hours per day from the start.

[1] The channel also launched on other cable networks such as Unitymedia, Kabel BW, and UPC Cablecom On 16 May 2009, National Geographic Channel replaced Discovery Geschichte on the Premiere satellite platform.

[2] Distribution of the Nat Geo People program derivative was discontinued in German-speaking countries as of September 12, 2017.

[3] On December 1, 2022 it was announced that the National Geographic Channel and Nat Geo Wild would be dropped from Sky Deutschland by the end of January 2023.