Saxony
Saxony is a federal state in the east of Germany. It contains the two largest and most important cities in eastern Germany other than Berlin: Leipzig and Dresden.Popular Destinations
Dresden
Dresden is the capital of Saxony. It's often referred to locally as Elbflorenz, or "Florence on the… Photo: Stefan Kühn, CC BY-SA 3.0.Leipzig
Leipzig is the largest city in the German federal state of Saxony, with a population of approximately 600,000. Photo: Gino992, Public domain.Saxon Ore Mountains
The Saxon Ore Mountains, called Erzgebirge in German or Krušné hory in Czech, is a mountain range in the south of Saxony in Germany. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.Upper Lusatia
Upper Lusatia is a geographic and historic region that is mostly located in modern-day land of Saxony in Germany. Photo: Kolossos, CC BY-SA 3.0.Destinations
Saxon Elbland
The Saxon Elbland is a region in the central part of Saxony. Photo: Kreidefossil, CC BY-SA 3.0.Leipzig Lowlands-Central Hills
Leipzig Lowlands is a plain in Saxony, Germany. It is bordered in the south and east by the Central Saxon Hills.Saxon Switzerland
Saxon Switzerland is an area in Saxony, Germany, so named after its picturesque upland scenery. Photo: Walther Wer, CC BY-SA 4.0.Vogtland
Vogtland is a region in southwestern Saxony, bordering Thuringia, Upper Franconia and West Bohemia. Photo: Aka, CC BY-SA 2.5.Saxony
- Type: State
- Description: state in Germany
- Category: state of Germany
- Location: Germany, Central Europe, Europe
- Neighbors: Bavaria, Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia
Latitude of center 50.9296° or 50° 55' 46.5" north | Longitude of center 13.4585° or 13° 27' 30.6" east |
Population 4,190,000 | Abbreviation SN |
Elevation 342 metres (1122 feet) | OpenStreetMap ID node 473831430 |
GeoNames ID 2842566 |
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Sakse
- Albanian: Saksonia
- Amharic: ዛክስን
- Arabic: Sachsen
- 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
- 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: 萨克森自由州
- Chinese: 薩克森
- Chinese: 薩克森自由州
- Chinese: 薩克遜
- Chuvash: Саксони
- Cornish: Sachsen
- Corsican: Sassonia
- Croatian: Freistaat Sachsen
- Croatian: Saska
- Croatian: Slobodna Država Saska
- Czech: Freistaat Sachsen
- Czech: Sasko
- Danish: Sachsen
- Dimli (individual language): Saksonya
- Dutch: Freistaat Sachsen
- Dutch: Saksen
- Egyptian Arabic: ساكسونيا
- English: DE-SN
- English: Free State of Saxony
- English: Freistaat Sachsen
- English: Sachsen
- English: Sakska
- English: Swobodny stat Sakska
- Esperanto: Saksio
- Estonian: Saksimaa
- Finnish: Sachsen
- Finnish: Saksi
- French: Freistaat Sachsen
- French: République de Saxe
- French: Saxe
- French: la Saxe
- French: État libre de Saxe
- Galician: Saxonia - Sachsen
- Galician: Saxonia
- Georgian: საქსონია
- German: DE-SN
- German: Freistaat Sachsen
- German: Sachsen
- Greek: Σαξονία
- Greek: Σαξωνία
- Guarani: Sahoña
- Gujarati: સેક્સોની
- Hakka Chinese: Saxony
- Hausa: Saxony
- Hebrew: סקסוניה
- Hindi: सैक्सोनी
- Hungarian: Freistaat Sachsen
- Hungarian: Sachsen
- Hungarian: Szászország
- Icelandic: Saxland
- Ido: Saxonia
- Indonesian: Sachsen
- Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association): Saxonia
- Interlingue: Saxonia
- Irish: An tSacsain
- Italian: Freistaat Sachsen
- Italian: Sassonia
- Japanese: ザクセン州
- Javanese: Sachsen
- Kannada: ಸ್ಯಾಕ್ಸೋನಿ
- Kazakh: Саксония еркін мемлекеті
- Kongo: Sachsen
- Korean: 작센 자유주
- Korean: 작센주
- Korean: 작센 주
- Kurdish: Saksonya
- Kölsch: Saxe
- 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
- Malay: Sachsen
- Malayalam: സാക്സണി
- Manx: Sachsen
- Marathi: जाक्सन
- Min Dong Chinese: Sachsen
- Min Nan Chinese: Sachsen
- Mongolian: Саксон
- Neapolitan: Sassonia
- Nepali: स्याक्सोनी
- Northern Frisian: Saksen
- Northern Sami: Sachsen
- Norwegian: Sachsen
- Norwegian Bokmål: Sachsen
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Sachsen
- Novial: Saxonia
- Occitan (post 1500): Saxònia
- Ossetian: Саксони
- Pampanga: Saxony
- Panjabi: ਜ਼ਾਕਸਨ
- Papiamento: Sachsen
- Persian: زاکسن
- Pfaelzisch: Sachsen
- Pfaelzisch: Saksä
- Piemontese: Sassònia
- Polish: Freistaat Sachsen
- Polish: Saksonia
- Portuguese: Freistaat Sachsen
- Portuguese: Saxónia
- Portuguese: Saxônia
- Portuguese: estado-livre da Saxónia
- Portuguese: estado da Saxónia
- Pushto: زاخسن
- Quechua: Sachsen
- Romanian: Saxonia
- Romansh: Saxonia
- Russia Buriat: Саксони
- Russian: Freistaat Sachsen
- Russian: Саксония
- Russian: Свободное государство Саксония
- Sardinian: Sassònia
- Saterfriesisch: Saksen
- Scots: Saxony
- Scottish Gaelic: Sagsainn
- Serbian: Саксонија
- Serbo-Croatian: Sachsen
- Serbo-Croatian: Saksonija
- Serbo-Croatian: Saxe
- Silesian: Saksůńijo
- Sindhi: سئڪسني
- Sinhala: සැක්සොනි
- Slovak: Sasko
- Slovenian: Saška
- South Azerbaijani: زاکسن
- Spanish: Freistaat Sachsen
- Spanish: Sachsen
- Spanish: Sajonia
- Swahili: Saksonia
- Swedish: Sachsen
- Swiss German: Freistaat Sachse
- Tagalog: Sahonya
- Tajik: Саксония
- Tamil: சாக்சனி
- Tamil: சாக்ஸ்சனி
- Tamil: சாஸோனி
- Tatar: Ирекле дәүләт Саксония
- Tatar: Саксония ирекле дәүләте
- Telugu: సాక్సోనీ
- Thai: รัฐซัคเซิน
- Tosk Albanian: Freistaat Sachsen
- Turkish: Saksonya
- Ukrainian: Freistaat Sachsen
- Ukrainian: Вільна земля Саксонія
- Ukrainian: Саксонія
- Upper Sorbian: Sakska
- Urdu: زاکسن
- Uzbek: Saksoniya
- Venetian: Sassonia
- Venetian: Sasònia
- Vietnamese: Sachsen
- Vietnamese: Saxony
- Volapük: Saxän
- Waray (Philippines): Sachsen
- Welsh: Sachsen
- Western Frisian: Saksen
- Western Panjabi: سیکسنی
- Wu Chinese: 萨克森自由州
- Yiddish: סאקסאניע
- Yoruba: Saxony
- Yue Chinese: 薩克遜
- Land Sachsen
- Sasògna
- זאקסן
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