Lower Saxony
StateDE-NIData as of · Metro Power Rankings
State of Germany.
EuropeCapital: HanoverSub-region: West GermanyLanguage: German
Population
8.0M
Metros tracked
7
11.0M in metros (137%)
Composite score
59.2
Sum across tracked metros
Type
State
ISO 3166-2: DE-NI
At a glance
- Endonym
- Niedersachsen
- Established
- 1946
- Area
- 47,614 km² (18,384 mi²)
- Population density
- 168/km² (435/mi²)
- Highest point
- Wurmberg (968 m (3,176 ft))
- Legislature
- Landtag of Lower Saxony
- Human Development Index
- 0.945 (2023)
- Bundesrat votes
- 6
- Rank in Germany
- 6th of 16 by composite score
- Area rank
- 2nd of 16 by area
- Largest tracked metro
- Hamburg
Civic facts via Wikidata.
Lower Saxony metro footprint
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