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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.
Free State o Saxony | |
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| Coordinates: 51°1′37″N 13°21′32″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)[1] | |
| • 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 |
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.
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:
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