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  / 51.02694; 13.35889
Kintra	Germany
Caipital	Dresden
Govrenment
?  Meenister-Preses	( CDU )
? Govrening pairties	CDU / FDP
?  Bundesrat votes	4 (o 69)
Area
? Tot	18415.66 km 2 (7,110.33 sq mi)
Population   (2021-12-31) [1]
? Tot	4,043,002
? Density	220/km 2 (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 [?f?a??taːt ?zaks?n] ; 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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Sachsen is dividit intae three Direktionsbezirke  ? Chemnitz , Dresden , Leipzig  ? which are subdividit intae 10 destricts:

  1. Bautzen (BZ)
  2. Erzgebirgskreis (ERZ)
  3. Gorlitz (GR)
  4. Leipzig (L)
  5. Meißen (MEI)(Meissen)
  6. Mittelsachsen (FG)
  7. Nordsachsen (TDO)
  8. Sachsische 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 Stadte ), which an aw hae destrict status:

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

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Wikimedia Commons haes media relatit tae Saxony .

Geografic data relatit tae Saxony at OpenStreetMap

• Offeecial govrenmental portal
• Christmas time in Saxony
• some facts aboot Saxony
• some stories about Dresden Neustadt - The Caipital o Saxony