Saarland

Also known as DE-SL

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

AI overview

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).

AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.

Key facts

Settlement.iso_code: DE-SL
Settlement.official_name: Saarland
Settlement.native_name: (French)
Settlement.native_name_lang: de
Settlement.settlement_type: State
Settlement.imagesize: 270px
Settlement.image_flag: Flag of Saarland.svg
Settlement.flag_size: 120px
Settlement.image_shield: Wappen des Saarlands.svg
Settlement.shield_size: 75px
Settlement.anthem: "Ich rühm' dich, du freundliches Land an der Saar"
Settlement.mapsize: 155px
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Germany
Settlement.established_title: Founded
Settlement.seat_type: Capital
Settlement.seat: Saarbrücken
Settlement.governing_body: Landtag of Saarland

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Instance of: unit of measurement
Named after: Saar
Official name: Saarland
Country: West Germany
Located in: West Germany
Contains: St. Wendel
Capital: Saarbrücken
Population: 1006864
Area: 2570.0
Time zone: UTC+02:00
Head of government: Anke Rehlinger
Legislature: Landtag of Saarland
Shares border with: Luxembourg
Highest point: Dollberg
Official website: www.saarland.de
Image: 20110906Landtag Saarbruecken1.jpg
Motto: Les petits ruisseaux font les grandes rivières
Flag: flag of Saarland
Coat of arms: coat of arms of Saarland

Show 18 more facts

Commons category: Saarland
topic's main category: Category:Saarland
category for people born here: Category:Births in Saarland
category for people who died here: Category:Deaths in Saarland
category of associated people: Category:People from Saarland
Commons gallery: Saarland
inception: 1947-12-17
native label: Saarland
replaces: Saar Protectorate
different from: Saare County
social media followers: 16380
P11012: Social Democratic Party of Lithuania
twinned administrative body: Lviv Oblast
official observer status in organization: Organisation internationale de la Francophonie
P8168: Alvin Saunders
number of viewers/listeners: 3273537
P12749: Pseudorchis albida
hashtag: Saarland

Sources (15)

via Wikidata · CC0

~24 min read

Encyclopedic overview

25 sections

Contents

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

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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Saarland” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.