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Saxony Map
Every district, city and town in 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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Free to print for class and home: Saxony with its cities and towns, a map of its districts, and a blank outline map. PDFs fit one A4 or US Letter page.
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Key facts
- Capital
- Dresden
- Largest city
- Leipzig (615,932)
- Population
- 4,026,599 (2025)
- Area
- 18,450 km² (7,124 sq mi)
- Districts of Saxony
- 13
- Most populous district
- Leipzig (615,932)
- Largest district by area
- Bautzen, 2,396 km² (925 sq mi)
About Saxony
Saxony has 13 districts and about 4,026,599 people (2025) on 18,450 km² (7,124 sq mi). The capital is Dresden; the largest city is Leipzig, with 615,932 people. It borders Bavaria, Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Poland and Czechia.
Leipzig is the most populous district (615,932 people) and Nordsachsen the least (198,639); Bautzen is the largest by area (2,396 km²) and Chemnitz the smallest (221 km²).
Largest cities in Saxony
The 25 most populous cities and towns. All 192 are on the map above: switch on Towns and zoom in to see them.
| # | City | District | Population |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leipzig | Leipzig | 615,932 |
| 2 | Dresden | Dresden | 562,764 |
| 3 | Chemnitz | Chemnitz | 247,252 |
| 4 | Zwickau | Zwickau | 86,405 |
| 5 | Plauen | Vogtlandkreis | 64,893 |
| 6 | Görlitz | Görlitz | 55,065 |
| 7 | Freiberg | Mittelsachsen | 41,205 |
| 8 | Pirna | Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge | 40,039 |
| 9 | Freital | Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge | 39,174 |
| 10 | Bautzen / Budyšin | Bautzen | 37,306 |
| 11 | Radebeul | Meißen | 33,081 |
| 12 | Hoyerswerda / Wojerecy | Bautzen | 30,458 |
| 13 | Riesa | Meißen | 29,238 |
| 14 | Meißen | Meißen | 28,863 |
| 15 | Grimma | Leipzig (district) | 27,554 |
| 16 | Delitzsch | Nordsachsen | 25,750 |
| 17 | Markkleeberg | Leipzig (district) | 25,354 |
| 18 | Zittau | Görlitz | 24,958 |
| 19 | Döbeln | Mittelsachsen | 23,907 |
| 20 | Limbach-Oberfrohna | Zwickau | 23,394 |
| 21 | Glauchau | Zwickau | 21,341 |
| 22 | Coswig | Meißen | 20,479 |
| 23 | Werdau | Zwickau | 20,209 |
| 24 | Borna | Leipzig (district) | 20,129 |
| 25 | Torgau | Nordsachsen | 19,855 |
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 4,026,599. Towns are whole municipalities (Gemeinden), so a city's figure stops at its boundary.
Districts of Saxony
All 13 districts. Select one to show it on the map.
| Landkreis | 290,610 | 2,396 | |
| Kreisfreie Stadt | 247,252 | 221 | |
| Kreisfreie Stadt | 562,764 | 328 | |
| Landkreis | 315,274 | 1,828 | |
| Landkreis | 241,749 | 2,111 | |
| Kreisfreie Stadt | 615,932 | 298 | |
| Landkreis | 259,516 | 1,651 | |
| Landkreis | 238,334 | 1,455 | |
| Landkreis | 294,037 | 2,117 | |
| Landkreis | 198,639 | 2,029 | |
| Landkreis | 242,471 | 1,654 | |
| Landkreis | 216,387 | 1,412 | |
| Landkreis | 303,634 | 950 |
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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).