Facts

• Population 8 million.
• Area 47,338 sq. km.
• The second largest state in Germany.

Famous Facts

• Home of the legend of The Pied Piper of Hamelin (Hameln).
• Another famous character who hails from this state is Baron Münchhausen. The teller of tall tales was born in the small town of Bodenwerder.
• The most infamous Nazi concentration camp in Germany is at Bergen-Belsen.
• Wolfsburg is the site of the world’s largest car plant – the Volkswagen factory.
• Some 40 students of the university in Göttingen went on to become Nobel prizewinners.
• Erich Maria Remarque, author of the great World War I classic, was from Osnabrück.

Where about

To the north of Lower Saxony lies the North Sea, while the state borders The Netherlands to the west and North Rhine-Westphalia to the south. Saxony-Anhalt lies to the east, and Brandenburg and Berlin, Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania to the north-east.

How to get there

• Air: Bremen international airport or Hanover airport.
• Train: Hanover main station (Hauptbahnhof).