Lower Saxony

Lower Saxony (German: [Niedersachsen] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) [ˈniːdɐzaksn̩] ( listen); Low German: Neddersassencode: nds is deprecated ; Saterland Frisian: Läichsaksen) is a German Bundesland (state).

Places

The capital is Hannover (Hanover).

There are 38 districts:


Ammerland Aurich Celle Cloppenburg County of Bentheim (Grafschaft Bentheim) 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.

Travel map of Lower Saxony.
Luftbilder von der Nordseeküste 2012-05: Wangerooge
Map of Lower Saxony with the district boundaries
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
Hanover - capital and largest city of Lower Saxony
City center of Braunschweig