Key facts
- Country
- Germany
- State
- Saxony
- Capital
- Görlitz
- District admin
- Stephan Meyer ( CDU )
- Total
- 2,106 km (813 sq mi)
- Density
- 115.8/km (300.0/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Vehicle registration
- GR, LÖB, NOL, NY, WSW, ZI
- Website
- www .kreis-görlitz .de
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Görlitz district (German: Landkreis Görlitz; Upper Sorbian: Wokrjes Zhorjelc [ˈwɔkʁʲɛs ˈzhɔʁʲɛlts]; Czech: Zemský okres Zhořelec; Polish: Powiat Zgorzelec) is a district (Kreis) in Saxony, and the easternmost in Germany. It is named after its capital Görlitz. It borders (from the west and clockwise) the district of Bautzen, the state of Brandenburg, Poland and the Czech Republic.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Görlitz District” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.