Saxony

Free State o Saxony
Free State o Saxony; Freistaat Sachsen (de); Swobodny stat Sakska (wen)
	State o Germany
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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	(CDU)
• Govrening pairties	CDU / FDP
• Bundesrat votes	4 (o 69)
Area
• Tot	18415.66 km2 (7,110.33 sq mi)
Population (2021-12-31)
• Tot	4,043,002
• Density	220/km2 (570/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	DE-SN
GDP/ Nominal	€86 billion (2005) [citation needit]
NUTS Region	DED
Website	sachsen.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.

Geography

Admeenistration

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

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:

Chemnitz (C)
Dresden (DD)
Leipzig (L)

References

↑ "Bevölkerung des Freistaates Sachsen nach Gemeinden am 31. Dezember 2021" (XLS) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt des Freistaates Sachsen. 2022.

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Geografic data relatit tae Saxony at OpenStreetMap

[1] "Bevölkerung des Freistaates Sachsen nach Gemeinden am 31. Dezember 2021" (XLS) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt des Freistaates Sachsen. 2022.

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v t e States o the Federal Republic o Germany
States	Baden-Württemberg (syne 1952) Bavarie (syne 1949) Brandenburg (syne 1990) Hesse (syne 1949) Lawer Saxony (syne 1949) Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (syne 1990) North Rhine-Westphalie (syne 1949) Rhineland-Palatinate (syne 1949) Saarland (synce 1957) Saxony (syne 1990) Saxony-Anhalt (syne 1990) Schleswig-Holstein (syne 1949) Thuringie (syne 1990)
Ceety-states	Berlin (syne 1990) Bremen (syne 1949) Hamburgh (syne 1949)
Umwhile states	Baden (sooth) (1949–1952) Württemberg-Baden (1949–1952) Württemberg-Hohenzollern (1949–1952)

v t e Urban an rural destricts in the Free State o Saxony in Germany
Urban destricts	Chemnitz Dresden Leipzig
Rural destricts	Bautzen Erzgebirgskreis Görlitz Leipzig Meißen Mittelsachsen Nordsachsen Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge Vogtlandkreis Zwickau
Umwhile urban destricts	Görlitz Hoyerswerda Plauen Zwickau
Umwhile rural destricts	Annaberg Aue-Schwarzenberg Chemnitzer Land Delitzsch Döbeln Freiberg Kamenz Leipziger Land Löbau-Zittau Mittlerer Erzgebirgskreis Mittweida Muldentalkreis Niederschlesischer Oberlausitzkreis Riesa-Großenhain Sächsische Schweiz Stollberg Torgau-Oschatz Weißeritzkreis Zwickauer Land