(the Free State of Saxony (German: der Freistaat Sachsen [ˈfʁaɪ̯ʃtaːt ˈzaksn̩]; Upper Sorbian: Swobodny stat Sakska) is a landlocked federal state of Germany, bordering the federal states of Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland (Lower Silesian and Lubusz Voivodeships) and the Czech Republic (Karlovy Vary, Liberec and ‘Ústí nad Labem’ Regions))
(its capital is ‘Dresden’, and its largest city is ‘Leipzig’)
(‘Saxony’ is the tenth largest of Germany’s sixteen states, with an area of 18,413 square kilometres (7,109 sq mi), and the sixth most populous, with 4 million people)
(located in the middle of a large, formerly all German-speaking part of Europe, the history of the state of Saxony spans more than a millennium)
(it has been a medieval duchy, an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire, a kingdom, and twice a ‘republic’)
(the area of the modern state of Saxony should not be confused with Old Saxony, the area inhabited by ‘Saxons’)
(‘Old Saxony’ corresponds approximately to the modern German states of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and the Westphalian part of ‘North Rhine-Westphalia’)