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Capital:	Hanover
Area:	47,618 km²
Inhabitants:	8,002,916 September 30, 2004
pop. density:	168 inh./km²
Website:	niedersachsen.de
ISO 3166-2:	DE-NI
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Minister-president:	Christian Wulff (CDU)
Ruling party:	CDU/FDP
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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 among the country's sixteen Bundesländer (federal states) of Germany. In rural areas Low German is still spoken, but the number of speakers is declining.

Geography

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Lower Saxony borders on (from north and clockwise) the North Sea, the states of Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia, and the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The state of Bremen forms two enclaves within Lower Saxony. The state's principal cities include Hanover, Braunschweig (Brunswick), Osnabrück, Oldenburg, and Göttingen.

The northwestern portion of Lower Saxony is a part of Frisia; it is called Ostfriesland (East Frisia) and lies on the coast of the North Sea. It includes seven islands, known as the East Frisian Islands. In the southwest of Lower Saxony is the Emsland, a sparsely populated area, once full of 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 the northeast is called Lüneburger Heide (Lüneburg Heath), the largest 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. The area on the southern banks is called Altes Land, and it is characterised by thousands of fruit trees.

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Weather in Oldenburg, Lower Saxony: Mostly Cloudy | -3° C
Manon2210 (Manon Eisenhauer) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:27:20 -0000
Weather in Oldenburg, Lower Saxony: Mostly Cloudy | -3° C
Photo: My 5th tattoo, as always made at Mike Ford’s Tattoo Pirates in Peine, Lower Saxony, Germany. Mike is a... http://tumblr.com/xbt59nxdj
kehxe (Klaus H.) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:01:47 -0000
Photo: My 5th tattoo, as always made at Mike Ford’s Tattoo Pirates in Peine, Lower Saxony, Germany. Mike is a... http://tumblr.com/xbt59nxdj
@FionaFlame I really want to move to devizes, I am usually from Braunschweig which is in lower saxony.Moved into mum´s bedroom until ...
_snugglebum (S. Nugglebum) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:38:21 -0000
@FionaFlame I really want to move to devizes, I am usually from Braunschweig which is in lower saxony.Moved into mum´s bedroom until ...
Weather in Oldenburg, Lower Saxony: Fog | -3° C
Manon2210 (Manon Eisenhauer) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:31:39 -0000
Weather in Oldenburg, Lower Saxony: Fog | -3° C
@CanDiceGrunWald oh ok. I live in Lower Saxony, which is in the North. Unfortunately I live an a really little city..
4ntonia (Antonia-Ivana K.) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:41:26 -0000
@CanDiceGrunWald oh ok. I live in Lower Saxony, which is in the North. Unfortunately I live an a really little city..
15 cm new snow WOW I can not remind when the last time was that we had so much snow in Lower Saxony
sarasamantha (Sara N.) Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:50:43 -0000
15 cm new snow WOW I can not remind when the last time was that we had so much snow in Lower Saxony

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