Facts

Population 2.72 million. Area 20,455 sq. km.

Famous Facts

In 1517 Martin Luther launched the Protestant Reformation in Wittenberg. The Bauhaus movement of design and architecture was based in Dessau. The region was once the GDR’s industrial powerhouse. Vacuum technology was invented in Magdeburg in the 1650s. Händel was born in Halle.

Where about

Saxony-Anhalt is bounded to the north-east by Brandenburg and Berlin and the south-east by Saxony. Thuringia is to the south-west and Lower Saxony and Bremen to the north-west.

How to get there

Magdeburg domestic airport.

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