The Free State of Saxony (German: Freistaat Sachsen [ˈfʁaɪʃtaːt ˈzaksən]; Upper Sorbian: Swobodny stat Sakska) is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, the Czech Republic, and Poland.
It is the tenth-largest German state in area, with an area of 18,413
square kilometres (7,109 sq mi), and the sixth most populous of
Germany's sixteen states, with a population of 4.3 million.
