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Saarland

The Saarland is a small federal state of , located in the west of the country and forming part of the German border with and . Its name is very literal - the state is formed by the territory of the Saar river basin, although not all of it, as the river starts in and flows into the larger Moselle river in .
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has an impressive history of over a 1000 years, with its predecessors dating back to ancient Roman Empire. It has architectural heritage to prove that, and stands picturesquely over the bends of the river Saar, serving as the gateway to this underrated region of Germany.

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is a city and district in Saarland. With close to 200,000 inhabitants, it is the second most populous district in Saarland after neighbouring , though only about 35,000 live in the city of itself.

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is a city in Saarland in Germany. It's midway between Kaiserlautern and Saarbrücken, and 20 km from the border with France. Its main attraction is the huge system of sandstone caves, tunnelled out since the 17th century as raw material for glass-making.

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is a town in Saarland, . It is the capital of the district , with about 30,000 inhabitants in 17 municipalities on 108 km². It is situated on the river , approx. 35 km south of , and 35 km northwest of .

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St. Wendel is a town in northeastern Saarland. It is situated on the river 36 km northeast of , the capital of Saarland, and is named after Saint Wendelin of Trier.

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is a town and a municipality in Saarland, . It is the largest town and the seat of the . It is situated on the river , approx.

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is a municipality in the Merzig-Wadern district of the Saarland. It's at the western edge of Germany, bordering France, and 5 km east of the Schengen triple border of Germany, France and Luxembourg.

Saarland

Latitude of center
49.3842° or 49° 23′ 3″ north
Longitude of center
6.9537° or 6° 57′ 14″ east
Population
1,050,000
Elevation
244 metres (801 feet)
Abbreviation
“SL”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 565666205
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
2842635
Wiki­data ID
Q1201
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Saarland” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Saarland”
  • Albanian: “Saarland”
  • Albanian: “Sarlanda”
  • Amharic: “ዛዓርላንት”
  • Arabic: “سارلاند (ألمانيا)”
  • Arabic: “سارلاند، ألمانيا”
  • Arabic: “سارلاند”
  • Aragonese: “Sarre”
  • Armenian: “Սաար”
  • Armenian: “Սաարլանդ”
  • Asturian: “Saarland”
  • Asturian: “Sarre”
  • Aymara: “Saarland suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Saarland”
  • Balinese: “Saarland”
  • Basque: “Sarre”
  • Bavarian: “Saarland”
  • Belarusian: “Заарлянд”
  • Belarusian: “Саар”
  • Bengali: “জারলান্ড”
  • Bosnian: “Saarland”
  • Breton: “Saarland”
  • Breton: “Sar”
  • Bulgarian: “Саарланд”
  • Catalan: “Saarland”
  • Catalan: “Sarre”
  • Cebuano: “Saarland”
  • Central Kurdish: “زارلاند”
  • Central Kurdish: “زارلەند”
  • Chechen: “Саар”
  • Chinese: “Saarland”
  • Chinese: “沙亞”
  • Chinese: “萨尔兰”
  • Chinese: “萨尔兰州”
  • Chinese: “薩爾”
  • Chinese: “薩爾州”
  • Chinese: “薩爾蘭”
  • Chinese: “薩爾蘭州”
  • Chuvash: “Саар”
  • Cornish: “Saarland”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Saar”
  • Croatian: “Saarland”
  • Croatian: “Saarska”
  • Czech: “Sársko”
  • Czech: “Země Sársko”
  • Dagbani: “Saarland”
  • Danish: “Saarland”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Saarland”
  • Dutch: “Saarland”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “زارلاند”
  • Esperanto: “Sarlando”
  • Estonian: “Saarimaa”
  • Finnish: “Saarland”
  • French: “DE-SL”
  • French: “Saarland”
  • French: “Sarre”
  • Friulian: “Saarland”
  • Galician: “Saarland”
  • Galician: “Sarre”
  • Georgian: “ზაარლანდი”
  • German: “DE-SL”
  • German: “Saarland”
  • Greek: “Σάαρλαντ”
  • Guarani: “Sarre”
  • Gujarati: “સારલેન્ડ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Saarland”
  • Hebrew: “חבל הסאר”
  • Hindi: “सारलैंड”
  • Hungarian: “Saar-vidék”
  • Icelandic: “Saarland”
  • Ido: “Saarland”
  • Inari Sami: “Saarland uásistaatâ”
  • Inari Sami: “Saarland”
  • Indonesian: “Saarland”
  • Interlingua: “Saarland”
  • Interlingue: “Saarland”
  • Irish: “An tSárlainn”
  • Italian: “Saarland”
  • Japanese: “ザールラント”
  • Japanese: “ザールラント州”
  • Javanese: “Saarland”
  • Kannada: “ಸಾರ್ಲ್ಯಾಂಡ್”
  • Kazakh: “Саар”
  • Kirghiz: “Саар”
  • Kölsch: “Saarland”
  • Kongo: “Saarland”
  • Korean: “자를란트”
  • Korean: “자를란트주”
  • Kurdish: “Saarland”
  • Ladin: “Saarland”
  • Latin: “Saravia”
  • Latvian: “Zāra”
  • Ligurian: “Saarland”
  • Limburgan: “Saarland”
  • Lithuanian: “Saro kraštas”
  • Lombard: “Saarland”
  • Low German: “Saarland”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Saarlandska”
  • Luxembourgish: “Saarland”
  • Macedonian: “Сар”
  • Malagasy: “Saarland”
  • Malay: “Saarland”
  • Malayalam: “സാർലാൻഡ്”
  • Manx: “Saarland”
  • Marathi: “जारलांड”
  • Mazanderani: “زارلاند”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Saarland”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Saarland”
  • Mongolian: “Заарланд”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “سارلاند”
  • Nepali: “जारलान्ड”
  • Nepali: “सारल्यान्ड”
  • Northern Frisian: “Saarlönj”
  • Northern Frisian: “Saarlun”
  • Northern Sami: “Saarland”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Saarland”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Saarland”
  • Norwegian: “Saarland”
  • Novial: “Saarlande”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Saarland”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sarland”
  • Ossetian: “Саар”
  • Pampanga: “Saarland”
  • Panjabi: “ਜ਼ਾਰਲਾਂਡ”
  • Papiamento: “Land Saarland”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Saarland”
  • Persian: “زارلاند”
  • Persian: “زارلند”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Saarland”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Saarlond”
  • Piemontese: “Saarland”
  • Polish: “Saara”
  • Portuguese: “Sarre”
  • Pushto: “زارلاند”
  • Pushto: “سارلينډ”
  • Quechua: “Saarland”
  • Romanian: “DE-SL”
  • Romanian: “Saarland”
  • Romansh: “Saarland”
  • Russian: “Саар”
  • Sardinian: “Saarland”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Saarlound”
  • Scots: “Saarland”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Saarland”
  • Serbian: “Сарланд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Saarland”
  • Silesian: “Krej Saary”
  • Sindhi: “سارلنڊ”
  • Sinhala: “සාර්ලන්ඩ්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Saarlaant vueʹssvaldia”
  • Skolt Sami: “Saarland”
  • Skolt Sami: “Saarlantt”
  • Slovak: “Sársko”
  • Slovenian: “DE-SL”
  • Slovenian: “Posarje”
  • Slovenian: “Saarland”
  • South Azerbaijani: “زارلاند”
  • Spanish: “Saarland”
  • Spanish: “Sarre”
  • Swahili: “Saar”
  • Swedish: “Saarland”
  • Swiss German: “Saarland”
  • Tagalog: “Sarre”
  • Tajik: “Заар”
  • Tamil: “சார்லண்ட்”
  • Tamil: “சார்லாந்து”
  • Tatar: “Саар”
  • Telugu: “సార్లాండ్”
  • Thai: “รัฐซาร์ลันท์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Saarland”
  • Turkish: “Saarland”
  • Udmurt: “Саар”
  • Ukrainian: “земля Саар”
  • Ukrainian: “Саар”
  • Ukrainian: “Саарланд”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Posaarska”
  • Urdu: “زارلینڈ”
  • Urdu: “سارلنڈ”
  • Uzbek: “Saarland”
  • Venetian: “Saarland”
  • Vietnamese: “Saarland”
  • Vlaams: “Soarland”
  • Volapük: “Saarlän”
  • Volapük: “Sarlän”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Saarland”
  • Welsh: “Saarland”
  • Western Armenian: “Սաարլենտ”
  • Western Frisian: “Saarlân”
  • Western Panjabi: “سارلینڈ”
  • Wu Chinese: “萨尔兰”
  • Wu Chinese: “萨尔兰州”
  • Yiddish: “זארלאנד”
  • Yiddish: “זאַרלאַנד”
  • Yoruba: “Saarland”
  • Yue Chinese: “沙亞”
  • Zeeuws: “Saarland”
  • “Saarland”
  • “Sârland”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Saarland”. Photo: wolfgangstaudt, CC BY 2.0.