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Lower Saxony(lowersaxony)
With an area of 47,618 km² and nearly eight million inhabitants, Lower Saxony (German Niedersachsen)lies in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population amongthe country's sixteen Bundesländer (federal states). Inrural areas Low Saxon is still spoken, but declining so.
GeographyLower Saxony borders on (from north and clockwise) the North Sea , the statesof Schleswig-Holstein , Hamburg , Mecklenburg-WesternPomerania , Brandenburg , Saxony-Anhalt , Thuringia , Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia , and thekingdom of the Netherlands . The state of Bremen forms two enclaves within Lower Saxony. The state'sprincipal cities include Hanover , Braunschweig (Brunswick), Osnabrück , Oldenburg and Göttingen . The northwestern portion of Lower Saxony is a part of Frisia ; it is calledOstfriesland (Eastern Frisia) and lies on the coast of the North Sea . Itincludes seven islands, known as the East Frisian Islands .In the southwest of Lower Saxony is the Emsland , a sparsely populated area, once fullof inaccessible swamps. The northern half of Lower Saxony is absolutely flat, but there are two mountain chains in the south: the Weserbergland ("Weser Hilly Region") and the Harz . The middle of the state houses the largest cities and the economic centres: Hanover , Hildesheim , Wolfsburg , Salzgitter and Braunschweig. The region in thenortheast is called Lüneburger Heide ( Lüneburg Heath ), thelargest heath of Germany and in medieval times wealthy due to the salt trade. To the north the Elbe river separates Lower Saxony from Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Brandenburg. Thelands on the southern banks are called Altes Land (literally "Old Land"), and they are characterised by thousands of fruit-trees. See also List of places in LowerSaxony . Lower Saxony is divided into 38 districts (Landkreise or simply Kreise):
The districts and idependent towns are grouped into four administrative regions ( Regierungsbezirke ):
HistoryThe area is named for the Saxons , who moved there from what is today theneighbouring state of Schleswig-Holstein towards the middle ofthe 1st millennium AD. Originally the region was simply called Saxony, but as the center of gravity of the Duchy ofSaxony gradually moved up the Elbe, towards the present day states of Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony , the region was given the name LowerSaxony, which it bore as an Imperial Circle Estate from the late 15th Century. The state was founded in 1946 by the British military administration, who merged theformer states of Brunswick-Lüneburg , Oldenburg , and Schaumburg-Lippe with the former Prussian province of Hanover . Politics
List of Minister-Presidents of Lower Saxony
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