Sajonia-Anhalt
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| Capital: | Magdeburg |
| Área: | 20,447 km² |
| Habitantes: | 2,580,626(2001) |
| densidad: | 126 inh./km² |
| Página web: | sachsen-anhalt.de |
| ISO 3166-2: | DE-ST |
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| Minister-President: | Wolfgang Böhmer (CDU) |
| Ruling party: | CDU/FDP coalition |
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With an area of 20,447 km² and a population of 2.6 million, Saxony-Anhalt (German Sachsen-Anhalt) is one of the new German Bundesländer (federal states) included until 1990 in East Germany. The capital is Magdeburg.
Geografía
Lying a the north-east of central Germany, it is eighth largest in area and (since 1996) tenth in population among the country's sixteen Bundesländer. It borders on the states of Lower Saxony a the north-west, Brandenburg a the east, Saxony a the south-east and Thuringia a the south-west.
Most of the state is plain and agriculturally used, but in the south-west there is the eastern part of the Harz mountains. The main river of Saxony-Anhalt is the Elbe, running through the state from southeast a northwest. The second largest river, the Saale, is a tributary of the Elbe.
See also List of places in Saxony-Anhalt.
Saxony-Anhalt is divided into three Regierungsbezirke - Dessau, Halle and Magdeburg - which are subdivided into 21 districts:
Furthermore there are three independent towns, which don't belong a any district:
Historia
The state was created shortly before reunification, covering much the same area as an earlier unit (1947-52) comprising the former Anhalt, the former Prussian Province of Saxony and some small exclaves of the former Brunswick-Lüneburg. The state and its larger cities have lost population since 1989 with migration a the former West Germany.
List of Minister-Presidents of Saxony-Anhalt
- 1945 - 1949: Erhard Hübener
- 1949 - 1952: Werner Bruschke
- 1990 - 1991: Gerd Gies (CDU)
- 1991 - 1993: Werner Münch (CDU)
- 1993 - 1994: Christoph Bergner (CDU)
- 1994 - 2002: Reinhard Höppner (SPD)
- since 2002: Wolfgang Böhmer (CDU)