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Saxony

Free State of Saxony
Freistaat Sachsen (de)
Swobodny stat Sakska (wen) 
State of Germany
Flag of Free State of Saxony
Flag
Coat of arms of Free State of Saxony
Coat of arms
Deutschland Lage von Sachsen.svg
Coordinates: 51°1′37″N 13°21′32″E / 51.02694°N 13.35889°E / 51.02694; 13.35889
Country Germany
Capital Dresden
Government
 • Minister-President Stanislaw Tillich (CDU)
 • Governing parties CDU / SPD
 • Bundesrat votes 4 (of 69)
Area
 • Total 18,415.66 km2 (7,110.33 sq mi)
Population (2015-12-31)
 • Total 4,084,851
 • Density 220/km2 (570/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
ISO 3166 code DE-SN
GDP/ Nominal €113/ $125 billion (2015)
GDP per capita €28,000/ $31,000 (2015)
NUTS Region DED
Website sachsen.de
Significant foreign born populations
Nationality Population (2014)
 Poland 10,134
 Russia 9,326
 Vietnam 7.687
 Ukraine 6,250
 China 5,182
 Syria 4,393
 Hungary 4,268
 Czech 4,194
 Turkey 4,059
 Romania 3,944
 India 3,745
 Italy 2.874

The Free State of Saxony (German: der Freistaat Sachsen [ˈfʁaɪ̯ʃtaːt ˈzaksən]; Upper Sorbian: Swobodny stat Sakska) is a landlocked federal state of Germany, bordering the federal states of Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland (Lower Silesian and Lubusz Voivodeships) and the Czech Republic (Karlovy Vary, Liberec and Ústí nad Labem Regions). Its capital is Dresden, and its largest city is Leipzig.

Saxony is the tenth largest of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of 18,413 square kilometres (7,109 sq mi), and the sixth most populous, with 4 million people.

Located in the middle of a large, formerly all German-speaking part of Europe, the history of the state of Saxony spans more than a millennium. It has been a medieval duchy, an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire, a kingdom, and twice a republic.

The area of the modern state of Saxony should not be confused with Old Saxony, the area inhabited by Saxons. Old Saxony corresponds approximately to the modern German states of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and the Westphalian part of North Rhine-Westphalia.


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