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Lower Saxony

Niedersachsen

Flag	Coat of arms

Country

Capital

Area

• Total

47,168 km² (18,212 sq mi)

Population

• Total

8,002,916

• Density

169.6683/km² (439.439/sq mi)

• Summer (DST)

Website

niedersachsen.de

Lower Saxony (German: Niedersachsen) is a German Bundesland (state).

Places

The capital is Hannover (Hanover).

There are 38 districts:


Ammerland Aurich Bentheim Celle Cloppenburg Cuxhaven Diepholz Emsland Friesland Gifhorn Goslar Göttingen Hamelin-Pyrmont (Hameln-Pyrmont)	Hanover (Hannover) Harburg Helmstedt Hildesheim Holzminden Leer Lüchow-Dannenberg Lüneburg Nienburg Northeim Oldenburg Osnabrück Osterholz	Osterode Peine Rotenburg Schaumburg Soltau-Fallingbostel Stade Uelzen Vechta Verden Wesermarsch Wittmund Wolfenbüttel

There are 8 urban districts

Other important towns are Göttingen, Hildesheim and Goslar.

Map of Lower Saxony
East Frisian Islands
Hannover
Braunschweig
Hildesheim
Lüneburg
Cuxhaven port
Göttingen
Oldenburg
Wilhelmshaven with the North Sea
Osnabrück
Salzgitter
The Duchy of Saxony around 1000
Imperial circles at the start of the 16th century. Red: the Lower Saxon Circle, light brown: the Lower Rhenish-Westphalian Circle
The Kingdom of Hanover, the Duchy of Brunswick, the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg and the Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe in the 19th century
Ordinance No. 55, with which on 22 November 1946 the British military government founded the state Lower Saxony retroactively to 1 November 1946
St. Andreas, Hildesheim
Hildesheim Cathedral
St. Michael's Church in Hildesheim
Mines of Rammelsberg
Historic Town of Goslar
Upper Harz Water Regale
Lower Saxony Wadden Sea
Fagus Factory in Alfeld