Saxony

This airticle is aboot the modren state o Saxony in present-day Germany. For ither uisses, see Saxony (disambiguation).

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 Freistaat Sachsen (de) Swobodny stat Sakska (wen)
State o Germany
Banner Coat airms
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.

Geography

Admeenistration

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)