Lower Saxony

Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen) is one of the sixteen federal states (Bundesländer) of Germany. It is situated in the north-east of the federal republic and shares borders the North Sea and The Netherlands to the west the neighboring federal state of Sleswick-Holsatia and Hamburg to the north and by the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern to the northeast, Saxony-Anhalt to the east, Thuringia and Hessen to the south, and North Rhine-Westphalia to the southwest. The state of Bremen, formed by the cities of Bremerhaven (at the mouth of the Weser) and Bremen (40 miles [64 km] up the river), is an enclave within Lower Saxony.^[1]

The capital of Lower Saxony is Hannover.

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1. ↑ https://www.britannica.com/place/Lower-Saxony