Saarland
Sign in to saveSaarland () or The Saarland is a state of Germany in the southwest of the country. With an area of and a population of 990,509 in 2018, it is the smallest German state in area apart from the city-states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg, and the smallest in population apart from Bremen. Saarbrücken is the state capital and largest city; other cities include Neunkirchen and Saarlouis. Saarland is mainly surrounded by the department of Moselle (Grand Est) in France to the west and south and the neighboring state of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany to the north and east; it also shares a small border
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Saarland is a small state in southwestern Germany, bordered mainly by France and the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, with its capital in Saarbrücken. With a population of about 990,000 people, it is Germany's smallest state by area (excluding city-states) and by population (excluding Bremen).
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Key facts
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- DE-SL
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- Saarland
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- (French)
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- de
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- State
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- 270px
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- Flag of Saarland.svg
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- 120px
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- 75px
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- "Ich rühm' dich, du freundliches Land an der Saar"
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- 155px
Article
25 sectionsContents
- History
- Before World War I
- Interwar history
- Nazi period
- History after World War II
- Geography
- Districts
- Demographics
- Largest cities
- Religion
- Politics
- Current government of the Saarland
- Economy
- Education
- Transport
- Culture
- Local dialect
- French
- Sports
- Museums
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- See also
- External links
Saarland () or The Saarland is a state of Germany in the southwest of the country. With an area of and a population of 990,509 in 2018, it is the smallest German state in area apart from the city-states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg, and the smallest in population apart from Bremen. Saarbrücken is the state capital and largest city; other cities include Neunkirchen and Saarlouis. Saarland is mainly surrounded by the department of Moselle (Grand Est) in France to the west and south and the neighboring state of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany to the north and east; it also shares a small border, about long, with the canton of Remich in Luxembourg to the northwest.
Having long been a relatively small part of the long-contested territories along the Franco-German linguistic border, Saarland first gained specific economic and strategic importance in the nineteenth century due to the wealth of its coal deposits and the heavy industrialization that grew as a result. Saarland was first established as a distinct political entity in 1920 after World War I as the Territory of the Saar Basin, which was occupied and governed by France under a League of Nations mandate.