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With an area of 20,446 km² and a population of 2.7 million, Saxony-Anhalt (German Sachsen-Anhalt) is one of the new German Bundesländer (federal states) included until 1990 in East Germany.

Lying to the north-east of central Germany, it is eighth largest in area and (since 1996) tenth in population among the country's sixteen Länder. It borders on the states of Lower Saxony to the north-west, Brandenburg to the east, Saxony to the south-east and Thuringia to the south-west.

The state was created shortly before reunification, covering much the same area as an earlier unit (1947-52) comprising the former Anhalt and the Prussian part of Saxony. Its principal cities include Halle, Magdeburg and Dessau. The state and its larger cities have lost population since 1989 with migration to the former West Germany.

For the state's own website (in German), see http://www.sachsen-anhalt.de/

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