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Saxony

Local name: Freistaat Sachsen

Located in Germany Coordinates: 51°00′00″ N 13°15′00″ E

Saxony
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Map showing the location of Saxony Saxony
Location in Germany
Population
4,077,937
4.1M
Elevation
342 m
above sea level
Local time
UTC+01:00
Europe/Berlin · UTC+01:00
Places inside
806
listed under Saxony

About Saxony

Saxony is a region. Location: Germany. Population: 4,077,937.

From Wikipedia

Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of the Czechia and Poland. Its capital is Dresden, and its largest city is Leipzig. Saxony is the tenth largest of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of 18,450 square kilometres (7,124 sq mi), and the seventh most populous, with more than 4 million inhabitants.

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At a glance

Built
1918
Area
18,416 km²

Source: Wikidata

In comparison

  • 30 sights and natural places within 10 km Zellwald, Der Helle Grund
  • Listed here: Natural site: 370, River: 292, Lake: 102, Village: 16

Places in Saxony

806 places

Largest cities and towns

  • Chemnitz City, Chemnitz
    247.2K
  • Zwickau Village, Zwickau
    87.4K
  • Leipzig Village, Kreisfreie Stadt Leipzig
    611.8K
  • Dresden Village, Kreisfreie Stadt Dresden
    564.9K
  • Hoyerswerda Village, Landkreis Bautzen
    30.8K
  • Pirna Village, Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge
    40.1K
  • Görlitz Village, Landkreis Görlitz
    55.2K
  • Freiberg Village, Landkreis Mittelsachsen
    41.5K

Nature and heritage in Saxony

Sources & licences

Data last updated: · 2 independent sources