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Saxony is a federal state in the east of . It contains the two largest and most important cities in eastern Germany other than Berlin: Leipzig and Dresden.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Dresden and Leipzig.

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is the capital of Saxony. It's often referred to locally as Elbflorenz, or "Florence on the Elbe", reflecting its location on the Elbe river and its historical role as a centre for the arts and beautiful architecture - much like in Italy.

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is the largest city in the federal state of Saxony, with a population of approximately 600,000. It is the economic centre of the region, known as Germany's "Boomtown" and a major cultural centre, offering interesting sights, shopping and lively nightlife.

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is a city in southwestern Saxony, and the third-largest city in the state, after and . The settlement developed around a monastery, and was granted city status in 1170.

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Explore places such as Saxon Elbland and Saxon Ore Mountains.

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The is a region in the central part of Saxony. The region stretches along the Elbe river that forms diverse landscapes, ranging from rocks in to meadows on highlands of Großenhainer and Lommatzscher Pflege.

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The , called Erzgebirge in German or Krušné hory in Czech, is a mountain range in the south of Saxony in . It is known for its craftwork. The mountains have formed a natural border between Saxony and for many centuries.

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is a geographic and historic region that is mostly located in modern-day land of Saxony in . In this guide, it is used to refer to the territory of the Bautzen and Görlitz districts of Saxony, although what is referred to as by historians would usually include parts of what is now Dolnośląskie in , as well as lands now belonging to the .

Leipzig Lowlands is a plain in Saxony, . It is bordered in the south and east by the Central Saxon Hills. The latter is known as Saxony's "land of castles", including several mansions, fortresses, churches and monasteries as well as neat old towns.

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is a national park in Saxony, Germany, so named after its picturesque upland scenery. About 30 km upward the Elbe River from , this is a mountain area made of sandstone.

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is a region in southwestern Saxony, bordering , and . It is characterised by idyllic rolling hills cut through by river valleys and known for its handicraft traditions like lace-making and musical instrument making.

Saxony

Latitude of center
50.9296° or 50° 55′ 47″ north
Longitude of center
13.4585° or 13° 27′ 31″ east
Population
4,190,000
Elevation
342 metres (1,122 feet)
Abbreviation
“SN”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 473831430
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
2842566
Wiki­data ID
Q1202
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Saxony” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Sakse”
  • Albanian: “Saksonia”
  • Amharic: “ዛክስን”
  • Arabic: “زاكسن”
  • Arabic: “ساخسين”
  • Arabic: “ساكسن”
  • Arabic: “ساكسونيا”
  • Arabic: “سكسونيا”
  • Arabic: “صاقس”
  • Arabic: “صَاقِسُ”
  • Arabic: “ولاية ساكسونيا”
  • Arabic: “ولاية سكسونيا”
  • Aragonese: “Saxonia”
  • Armenian: “Սաքսոնիա”
  • Asturian: “Saxonia”
  • Aymara: “Sachsen suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Saksoniya”
  • Balinese: “Saxony”
  • Bashkir: “Саксония”
  • Basque: “Saxonia”
  • Bavarian: “Saggsn”
  • Belarusian: “Саксонія”
  • Bengali: “জাখসেন”
  • Bosnian: “Saksonija”
  • Breton: “Saks”
  • Bulgarian: “Саксония”
  • Catalan: “Saxònia”
  • Cebuano: “Saxony”
  • Central Kurdish: “ساکسۆنیا”
  • Chechen: “Маьрша пачхьалкх Саксони”
  • Chechen: “Саксони”
  • Chinese: “Sachsen”
  • Chinese: “萨克森”
  • Chinese: “萨克森州”
  • Chinese: “萨克森自由州”
  • Chinese: “薩克森”
  • Chinese: “薩克森州”
  • Chinese: “薩克森自由州”
  • Chinese: “薩克遜”
  • Chuvash: “Саксони”
  • Cornish: “Sachsen”
  • Corsican: “Sassonia”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Saksoniya”
  • Croatian: “Freistaat Sachsen”
  • Croatian: “Saska”
  • Croatian: “Slobodna Država Saska”
  • Czech: “Freistaat Sachsen”
  • Czech: “Sasko”
  • Dagbani: “Saxony”
  • Danish: “Sachsen”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Saksonya”
  • Dutch: “Freistaat Sachsen”
  • Dutch: “Saksen”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ساكسونيا”
  • Esperanto: “Saksio”
  • Estonian: “Saksimaa”
  • Finnish: “Sachsen”
  • Finnish: “Saksi”
  • French: “État libre de Saxe”
  • French: “Freistaat Sachsen”
  • French: “la Saxe”
  • French: “République de Saxe”
  • French: “Saxe”
  • Friulian: “Sassonie”
  • Galician: “Saxonia - Sachsen”
  • Galician: “Saxonia”
  • Georgian: “საქსონია”
  • German: “DE-SN”
  • German: “Freistaat Sachsen”
  • German: “Sachsen”
  • German: “SN”
  • German: “Swobodny stat Sakska”
  • Greek: “Σαξονία”
  • Guarani: “Sahoña”
  • Gujarati: “સેક્સોની”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Saxony”
  • Hebrew: “סקסוניה”
  • Hindi: “सैक्सोनी”
  • Hungarian: “Freistaat Sachsen”
  • Hungarian: “Sachsen”
  • Hungarian: “Szászország”
  • Icelandic: “Saxland”
  • Ido: “Saxonia”
  • Indonesian: “Negara Bebas Saxonia”
  • Indonesian: “Sachsen”
  • Indonesian: “Saxonia”
  • Interlingua: “Saxonia”
  • Interlingue: “Saxonia”
  • Irish: “An tSacsain”
  • Italian: “Freistaat Sachsen”
  • Italian: “Sassonia”
  • Japanese: “ザクセン州”
  • Javanese: “Sachsen”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಯಾಕ್ಸೋನಿ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “DE-SN”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Sachsen”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Sakska”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Saksoniya qalası”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Saksoniya”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Saxoniya”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Zaxsen”
  • Kazakh: “Саксония еркін мемлекеті”
  • Kirghiz: “Саксония”
  • Kölsch: “Saxe”
  • Kongo: “Sachsen”
  • Korean: “DE-SN”
  • Korean: “작센 자유주”
  • Korean: “작센”
  • Korean: “작센주”
  • Korean: “작스카”
  • Kurdish: “Saksonya”
  • Ladin: “Sachsen”
  • Ladino: “Sajonia”
  • Latin: “Saxonia”
  • Latvian: “Saksija”
  • Ligurian: “Sassonia”
  • Limburgan: “Sakse”
  • Lithuanian: “Saksonija”
  • Lombard: “Sasonia”
  • Low German: “Saksen”
  • Low German: “Sassen”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Sakska”
  • Luxembourgish: “Sachsen”
  • Macedonian: “Саксонија”
  • Malagasy: “Sachsen”
  • Malay: “Sachsen”
  • Malayalam: “സാക്സണി”
  • Manx: “Sachsen”
  • Marathi: “जाक्सन”
  • Mazanderani: “زاکسن”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Sachsen”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sachsen”
  • Moksha: “Саксония”
  • Mongolian: “Саксон”
  • Neapolitan: “Sassonia”
  • Nepali: “स्याक्सोनी”
  • Northern Frisian: “Saksen”
  • Northern Sami: “Sachsen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sachsen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sachsen”
  • Norwegian: “Sachsen”
  • Novial: “Saxonia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Saxònia”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Seaxland”
  • Ossetian: “Саксони”
  • Pampanga: “Saxony”
  • Panjabi: “ਜ਼ਾਕਸਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Sachsen”
  • Persian: “زاکسن”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Sachsen”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Saksä”
  • Piemontese: “Sassònia”
  • Polish: “Freistaat Sachsen”
  • Polish: “Saksonia”
  • Portuguese: “estado da Saxónia”
  • Portuguese: “estado-livre da Saxónia”
  • Portuguese: “Freistaat Sachsen”
  • Portuguese: “Saxónia”
  • Portuguese: “Saxônia”
  • Pushto: “زاخسن”
  • Quechua: “Sachsen”
  • Romanian: “DE-SN”
  • Romanian: “Saxonia”
  • Romanian: “Statul Liber Saxonia”
  • Romansh: “Saxonia”
  • Russia Buriat: “Саксони”
  • Russian: “Саксония”
  • Russian: “Свободное государство Саксония”
  • Sardinian: “Sassònia”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Saksen”
  • Scots: “Saxony”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Sagsainn”
  • Serbian: “Саксонија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sachsen”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Saksonija”
  • Silesian: “Saksůńijo”
  • Sindhi: “سئڪسني”
  • Sinhala: “සැක්සොනි”
  • Slovak: “Sasko”
  • Slovenian: “Sachsen”
  • Slovenian: “Saška”
  • Slovenian: “Svobodna dežela Saška”
  • South Azerbaijani: “زاکسن”
  • Spanish: “Freistaat Sachsen”
  • Spanish: “Sachsen”
  • Spanish: “Sajonia”
  • Swahili: “Saksonia”
  • Swedish: “Sachsen”
  • Swiss German: “Freistaat Sachse”
  • Swiss German: “Freistaat Sachsen”
  • Tagalog: “Sahonya”
  • Tajik: “Саксония”
  • Tamil: “சாக்சனி”
  • Tamil: “சாக்ஸ்சனி”
  • Tamil: “சாஸோனி”
  • Tatar: “Ирекле дәүләт Саксония”
  • Tatar: “Саксония ирекле дәүләте”
  • Telugu: “సాక్సోనీ”
  • Thai: “รัฐซัคเซิน”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Sachsen”
  • Turkish: “Saksonya”
  • Ukrainian: “Freistaat Sachsen”
  • Ukrainian: “Вільна земля Саксонія”
  • Ukrainian: “Саксонія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Sakska”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Swobodny Stat Sakska”
  • Urdu: “زاکسن”
  • Uzbek: “Saksoniya”
  • Venetian: “Sasònia”
  • Venetian: “Sassonia”
  • Vietnamese: “Sachsen”
  • Vietnamese: “Saxony”
  • Vlaams: “Saksen”
  • Volapük: “Saxän”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sachsen”
  • Welsh: “Sachsen”
  • Welsh: “Sacsoni”
  • Western Armenian: “Սաքսոնիա”
  • Western Frisian: “Saksen”
  • Western Panjabi: “سیکسنی”
  • Wu Chinese: “萨克森自由州”
  • Yiddish: “זאקסן”
  • Yiddish: “סאקסאניע”
  • Yoruba: “Saxony”
  • Yue Chinese: “薩克遜”
  • Zeeuws: “Sachsen”
  • “Sasògna”
  • “Saxonia”

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