While searching on the internet, I came across a Germany facts page written by William Berentsen, who happens to write and document a lot of information on Germany. I found that the state of Saxony is made up of a lot of mountains and hill. The Ore Mountains stretch about 100 miles through the southern border of Saxony. About half the land of Saxony is actually used for agriculture.
The next set of information I simply found on Wikipedia. The kingdom of Saxony lasted from 1806-1918 and became a free state after the end of WWll. During October 1990, Saxony was “recreated” when East and West Germany reunited after being under Communist rule. Now Germany is ruled by Stanislaw Tillich since May of 2008. Tillich is the minister-president which is the head of Germany’s government today.
The last set of information I found was on the UN Data page on the internet. I had found that Germany’s capitol, Dresden is populated at about 525,105 people, which is about the same population of people as Wyoming. Dresden is about the size of Hawaii, but a little bigger. Leipzig is the second most population city of Saxony, having about 520,838 people. Both Dresden and Leipzig make up about 25% of Saxony’s population alone. Saxony holds about 4.3 million people today, but the numbers have been declining since 1950 by 1.5 million people. Dresden and Leipzig have been increasing in population though, by about 100,000 since the year 2000.
I also did find out from Wikipedia, that most people speak “Upper Saxon German.” I also learned that since WWll, most of the population is non-religious. For the civilians that do practice a religion, the two popular religions are protestant and Roman Catholic.
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