Saxony

Free State o Saxony
Free State o Saxony; Freistaat Sachsen (de); Swobodny stat Sakska (wen)
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	Coordinates: 51°1′37″N 13°21′32″E / 51.02694°N 13.35889°E
Kintra	Germany
Caipital	Dresden
	Govrenment
- Meenister-Preses	Stanislaw Tillich (CDU)
- Govrenin pairties	CDU / FDP
- Votes in Bundesrat	4 (o 69)
	Aurie
- Total	18,415.66 km2 (7,110.3 sq mi)
	Indwallers (2008-12-31)
- Total	4,192,700
- Densitie	227.7/km2 (Expression error: Unexpected < operator./sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
- Simmer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
ISO 3166 code	DE-SN
GDP/ Nominal	€ 86 billion (2005) Template:Citation needed
NUTS Region	DED
Wabsteid	sachsen.de

This airticle is aboot the modren state o Saxony in present-day Germany. For ither uses, see Saxony (disambiguation).

The Free State o Saxony (German: Freistaat Sachsen Template:IPA-de; Template:Lang-hsb) is a landlockit state o Germany, contingent wi Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringie, Bavarie, the Czech Republic an Poland. It is the tent-lairgest German state in aurie, wi (18,413 square kilometres ({{rnd/cExpression error: Unexpected < operator.dec0|Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".|0}} sq mi), an the saxt maist-populous (4.3 million) o Germany's saxteen states.

Locatit in the middle o an erstwhile German-speakin pairt o Europe, the history o the state o Saxony spans mair than a millennium. It haes been a medieval duchy, an electorate o the Holy Roman Empire, a kinrick an frae 1918 tae 1952, an then again frae 1990, a republic.

The aurie o the modren state o Saxony shoud no be ramfeeselt wi Auld Saxony, the aurie inhabitit bi Saxons. Auld Saxony corresponds approximately tae the modren German states o Lawer Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt an the Westphalie pairt o North Rhine-Westphalie.