About Saxony
The Free State of Saxony is the easternmost federal state of Germany. Located in the country’s southeast, it is the tenth-largest in area and sixth-largest in population among Germany’s sixteen states, and has a land area of 18,413 km² and a population of 4.3 million. Saxony has a long history as a duchy, an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire (the Electorate of Saxony), and eventually as a kingdom (the Kingdom of Saxony). Its monarchy was overthrown in 1918 and a republican form of government was established under its current name subsequent to Germany’s defeat in World War I. Abolished during communist rule, it was re-established at 3 October 1990 during the re-unification of East and West Germany. During the early and high Middle Ages the term Saxony referred to the region occupied by today’s states of Lower Saxony and northern North Rhine-Westphalia. The Saxons had migrated there from the area of present-day Schleswig-Holstein between 250 and 500; see History below. The term Saxon does not always correlate with Saxony; a Saxon is not necessarily an inhabitant of Saxony (e.g. Saxon people, Anglo-Saxons or Transylvanian Saxons); see Saxon (disambiguation). Saxony is divided into 3 Regierungsbezirke — Chemnitz, Dresden, Leipzig — which are subdivided into 22 districts: 
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Furthermore there are seven independent cities (German: Kreisfreie Städte / Stadtkreise), which don’t belong to any district:
