LatLon-Dresden: Facts and figures of the City of Dresden

Dresden: Facts & figures

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The City of Dresden by numbers - The Federal State of Saxony by numbers
The Federal Republic of Germany by numbers - Traveling in Germany: Useful infos

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The City of Dresden by numbers

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DRESDEN
Federal Republic of Germany
Free State of Saxony - FREISTAAT SACHSEN

328,30 km²
536 308 (31.12.2014)
1634 hab./km²
German
102,73 m. (River Elbe) - 383 m. (Mount Treibenberg)
01067 - 01328
+49 - (0)351.

Dirk Hilbert (FDP)
CDU 21 - Linke 15 - Grünen 11 - SPD 9 - FDP 3
FBD 2 - Pirat 2 - AFD 5 - NPD 2
/ Total 70 miembros (05 2014)

www.dresden.de

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Federal Republic of Germany
Free State of Saxony - FREISTAAT SACHSEN
Dresden

LEIPZIG (544 479 inh.) - DRESDEN (536 308 )
CHEMNITZ (243 521) - ZWICKAU (91 066)

18 415 km²
4 055 888 (06.2015)
220 Inhabitants / km²
German - (Lower Sorbian, Upper Sorbian, Low German)
In Saxony 15'000 to 20'000 people speak Sorbian.

8,5 % (02.2016)

Stanislaw TILLICH (CDU)
Coalition CDU / SPD
CDU 59 - Linke 27 - SPD 18 - AFD 14 - Grüne 9
/ Total 127 Parliamentarians (08.2014)

www.sachsen.de

www.deutschland-auf-einen-blick.de

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The Federal Republic of Germany by numbers

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FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Berlin
Joachim Gauck (CDU) since 18 March, 2012
Angela MERKEL (CDU) since November 22, 2005
Coalition CDU-CSU/SPD

Federal Parliamentary republic/ Bundestag: CDU/CSU 310 - SPD 193 - Die Linke 64 - Die Grünen 63 = 630 (2013) (2009)

16 States >
North Rhine-Westphalia (17.638 inh. / 4.Rank for largest St.)
Bavaria (12.494 / 1.)
Baden-Württemberg (10.716 / 3.)
Lower Saxony (7.826 / 2.)
Hesse (6.093 / 7.)
Saxony (4.055 / 10.)
Rhineland-Palatinate (4.011 / 9.)
Berlin (3.484 / 14.)
Schleswig-Holstein (2.830 / 12.)
Brandenburg (2.457 / 5.)
Saxony-Anhalt (2.235 / 8.)
Thuringia (2.156 / 11.)
Hamburg (1.734 / 15.)
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (1.599 / 6.)
Saarland (989 / 13.)
Bremen (663 / 16.)

Berlin (3,48 inh.) - Hamburg (1,73) - Munich (1,32)

357 375 km²
81 900 000 habitants (12.2015)
230 hab./km²
German - (Danish, Low German, Sorbian, Romany & Frisian)
Euro € since 01 january 2002
46.268 USD
6,0 % (10.2015)
CET (UTC+1) / Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)

18 January 1871 - Deutsches Reich/ German Empire
23 May 1949 - BRD/ Federal Republic
7 October 1949 - DDR/ German Democratic Republic
3 October 1990 - Reunification

Octobre 3 - Tag der Deutschen Einheit / "The Day of German Unity" since 1990 (Before reunification: Juni 17)

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Berlin (2h30) - Leipzig (1h30) - Prague (2h20) - Görlitz (1h30) - München (6h)
Berlin Tegel (3h30) - Berlin Schönefeld (3h) - Leipzig (2h)
Dresden Hauptbahnhof
From Berlin: A13 / From Cologne/ From Eisenach: A4

Die Bahn (DB)
www.dvb.de
+49/ (0)331. 211 211 (web)
+49/ (0)331. 88 88 88 88 (Limousines) www.8mal8.de

Pariser Platz , 10117 Berlin, (030) 8 30 50 - Web
Wilhelmstraße 70, 10117 Berlin, ( 030) 20 45 70 - Web
Leipziger Platz 17, (030) 203 120 - Web
Website (Federal Foreign Office of Germany)

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110
31 00 31
19 24 0
89 00 43 33 (enquiries)
11837 (in English)

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