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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 / 51.02694; 13.35889
KintraGermany
CaipitalDresden
Govrenment
 • Meenister-Preses(CDU)
 • Govrening pairtiesCDU / FDP
 • Bundesrat votes4 (o 69)
Area
 • Tot18415.66 km2 (7,110.33 sq mi)
Population
 (2021-12-31)[1]
 • Tot4,043,002
 • Density220/km2 (570/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 codeDE-SN
GDP/ Nominal€86 billion (2005)[citation needit]
NUTS RegionDED
Websitesachsen.de

The Free State o Saxony (German: Freistaat Sachsen [ˈfʁaɪʃtaːt ˈzaksən]; Upper Sorbian: Swobodny stat Sakska) 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 kilometre (7,109 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 nor 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.

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Admeenistration[eedit | eedit soorce]

Sachsen is dividit intae three Direktionsbezirke — Chemnitz, Dresden, Leipzig — which are subdividit intae 10 destricts:

Map o 3 regions an 10 destricts in Saxony (Sachsen).

  1. Bautzen (BZ)
  2. Erzgebirgskreis (ERZ)
  3. Görlitz (GR)
  4. Leipzig (L)
  5. Meißen (MEI)(Meissen)
  6. Mittelsachsen (FG)
  7. Nordsachsen (TDO)
  8. Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge (PIR)
  9. Vogtlandkreis (V)
10. Zwickau (Z)

The Erzgebirgskreis destrict covers the Ore Muntains, an the Schweiz-Osterzgebirge destrict is Saxon Swisserland an the Eastren Ore Muntains.

In addition there are three urban destricts (German: kreisfreie Städte), which an aw hae destrict status:

  1. Chemnitz (C)
  2. Dresden (DD)
  3. Leipzig (L)

References[eedit | eedit soorce]

  1. "Bevölkerung des Freistaates Sachsen nach Gemeinden am 31. Dezember 2021" (XLS) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt des Freistaates Sachsen. 2022.
  2. "State population". Portal of the Federal Statistics Office Germany. Archived frae the original on 8 Mairch 2012. Retrieved 25 Apryle 2007.

Freemit airtins[eedit | eedit soorce]

Geografic data relatit tae Saxony at OpenStreetMap