___ Satellite View and Map of Lower-Saxony (Niedersachsen, Germany)

About Lower Saxony

The map shows the area of the Federal State of Lower-Saxony, a German 'Bundesland', one of the 16 Federal States of Germany, Lower-Saxony is located in northwest of the country, bodered by (clockwise) the North Sea in north, by Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in northeast, Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt in west, Thuringia and Hesse in south, and North Rhine-Westphalia in south west, it shares international borders with the Netherlands in west. It also surounds the two enclaves of (Land) Bremen. Lower-Saxony is Germany's second largest state by area.

Most populous city and state capital is Hannover (Hanover), the site of the world's biggest industrial fair (Hannover Messe). Other major cities are Braunschweig (Brunswick), Cuxhaven, Emden, the university town of Göttingen, Hildesheim, Lüneburg, Osnabrück, Oldenburg, Salzgitter, Wilhelmshaven, and Wolfsburg, home of the Volkswagen AG's headquarters and the biggest car plant in the world. Lower-Saxony has a population of about 8 million inhabitants.

In the basic setting of the map you see Lower-Saxony, with major cities, expressways (Autobahn) and main roads.

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