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Bautzen District
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Key facts
- Country
- Germany
- State
- Saxony
- Capital
- Bautzen
- District admin
- Udo Witschas ( CDU )
- Total
- 2,390.7 km (923.1 sq mi)
- Density
- 122.39/km (317.00/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Vehicle registration
- BZ, BIW, HY, KM
- Website
- www .landkreis-bautzen .de
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The district of Bautzen (German: Landkreis Bautzen, Upper Sorbian: Wokrjes Budyšin) is a district in the state of Saxony in Germany. Its largest towns are Bautzen, Bischofswerda, Kamenz, Hoyerswerda and Radeberg. It is the biggest district in Saxony by area, and a member of the Neisse Euroregion.
It is bordered to the south by the Czech Republic. Clockwise, it also borders the district of Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, the district-free city of Dresden, the district of Meißen, the state of Brandenburg, and the district of Görlitz.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bautzen District” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.