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Lower Saxony Map
Every district, city and town in Lower Saxony on one zoomable map, with its main highways, rivers and lakes. Switch on towns and districts above the map and zoom in for every name; tap a district to see its population, area and largest towns.
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Printable maps of Lower Saxony
Free to print for class and home: Lower Saxony with its cities and towns, a map of its districts, and a blank outline map. PDFs fit one A4 or US Letter page.
Lower Saxony map with cities
Lower Saxony districts map
Key facts
- Capital
- Hanover
- Largest city
- Hanover (522,803)
- Population
- 8,000,826 (2025)
- Area
- 47,710 km² (18,421 sq mi)
- Districts of Lower Saxony
- 45
- Most populous district
- Hanover Region (1,141,128)
- Largest district by area
- Emsland, 2,884 km² (1,114 sq mi)
About Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony has 45 districts and about 8,000,826 people (2025) on 47,710 km² (18,421 sq mi). Hanover is both the capital and the largest city, with 522,803 people. It borders Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Bremen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia and Netherlands.
Hanover Region is the most populous district (1,141,128 people) and Lüchow-Dannenberg the least (46,471); Emsland is the largest by area (2,884 km²) and Delmenhorst the smallest (62 km²).
Largest cities in Lower Saxony
The 25 most populous cities and towns. All 331 are on the map above: switch on Towns and zoom in to see them.
| # | City | District | Population |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hanover | Hanover Region | 522,803 |
| 2 | Braunschweig | Braunschweig | 252,811 |
| 3 | Oldenburg (Oldb) | Oldenburg (Oldb) | 177,055 |
| 4 | Osnabrück | Osnabrück | 166,257 |
| 5 | Göttingen | Göttingen | 130,521 |
| 6 | Wolfsburg | Wolfsburg | 129,813 |
| 7 | Salzgitter | Salzgitter | 104,433 |
| 8 | Hildesheim | Hildesheim | 98,207 |
| 9 | Delmenhorst | Delmenhorst | 81,274 |
| 10 | Wilhelmshaven | Wilhelmshaven | 75,324 |
| 11 | Lüneburg | Lüneburg | 74,502 |
| 12 | Celle | Celle | 66,930 |
| 13 | Garbsen | Hanover Region | 60,007 |
| 14 | Hameln | Hameln-Pyrmont | 58,152 |
| 15 | Nordhorn | Grafschaft Bentheim | 57,372 |
| 16 | Lingen (Ems) | Emsland | 56,539 |
| 17 | Langenhagen | Hanover Region | 54,059 |
| 18 | Wolfenbüttel | Wolfenbüttel | 52,511 |
| 19 | Peine | Peine | 51,005 |
| 20 | Cuxhaven | Cuxhaven | 49,545 |
| 21 | Emden | Emden | 49,009 |
| 22 | Stade | Stade | 48,699 |
| 23 | Goslar | Goslar | 47,454 |
| 24 | Melle | Osnabrück (district) | 46,396 |
| 25 | Neustadt am Rübenberge | Hanover Region | 44,696 |
Populations are the Federal Statistical Office's population on 31 December 2025, carried forward from the 2022 census, counted in the municipalities of that day; a district's population and area are the sums of its municipalities', and the districts add up to the state's 8,000,826. Towns are whole municipalities (Gemeinden), so a city's figure stops at its boundary.
Districts of Lower Saxony
All 45 districts. Select one to show it on the map.
| Landkreis | 127,632 | 731 | |
| Landkreis | 188,450 | 1,287 | |
| Kreisfreie Stadt | 252,811 | 193 | |
| Landkreis | 172,089 | 1,551 | |
| Landkreis | 177,849 | 1,420 | |
| Landkreis | 198,886 | 2,059 | |
| Kreisfreie Stadt | 81,274 | 62 | |
| Landkreis | 221,384 | 1,991 | |
| Kreisfreie Stadt | 49,009 | 112 | |
| Landkreis | 334,403 | 2,884 | |
| Landkreis | 100,261 | 610 | |
| Landkreis | 175,518 | 1,568 | |
| Landkreis | 126,082 | 967 | |
| Landkreis | 330,943 | 1,755 | |
| Landkreis | 144,674 | 982 | |
| Landkreis | 149,773 | 798 | |
| Region | 1,141,128 | 2,297 | |
| Landkreis | 265,727 | 1,248 | |
| Landkreis | 141,473 | 1,881 | |
| Landkreis | 89,771 | 676 | |
| Landkreis | 266,613 | 1,208 | |
| Landkreis | 65,271 | 694 | |
| Landkreis | 169,111 | 1,086 | |
| Landkreis | 46,471 | 1,227 | |
| Landkreis | 179,185 | 1,328 | |
| Landkreis | 121,159 | 1,401 | |
| Landkreis | 124,692 | 1,269 | |
| Landkreis | 132,176 | 1,065 | |
| Kreisfreie Stadt | 177,055 | 103 | |
| Kreisfreie Stadt | 166,257 | 120 | |
| Landkreis | 354,130 | 2,122 | |
| Landkreis | 113,340 | 653 | |
| Landkreis | 137,149 | 537 | |
| Landkreis | 165,853 | 2,075 | |
| Kreisfreie Stadt | 104,433 | 224 | |
| Landkreis | 156,077 | 676 | |
| Landkreis | 207,935 | 1,267 | |
| Landkreis | 91,367 | 1,463 | |
| Landkreis | 146,838 | 814 | |
| Landkreis | 138,895 | 789 | |
| Landkreis | 88,852 | 825 | |
| Kreisfreie Stadt | 75,324 | 107 | |
| Landkreis | 55,849 | 657 | |
| Landkreis | 117,844 | 724 | |
| Kreisfreie Stadt | 129,813 | 205 |
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Sources
- Districts, states and Germany's border: Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG), Verwaltungsgebiete 1:250 000 (VG250), the boundaries of 1 January 2026, daten.gdz.bkg.bund.de (dl-de/by-2-0).
- Populations, areas and town locations: Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) for the Statistical Offices of the Federation and the Länder, Gemeindeverzeichnis (GV-ISys), all municipalities on 31 December 2025, population on the basis of the 2022 census.
- Autobahns, rivers and lakes: BKG, Digitales Landschaftsmodell 1:1 000 000 (DLM1000), daten.gdz.bkg.bund.de (dl-de/by-2-0).