Thuringia
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| capital: | Erfurt |
| area: | 16,171 km² (6,244 sq mi) |
| population: | 2411387 |
| Pop density: | 148 per km² |
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| Ruling party: | CDU |
| Minister President: | Dieter Althaus |
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Thuringia (German: Thüringen) is a Bundesland of Germany. It lies in central Germany and has an area of 16,251 km² (6,274.5 sq mi). This means Saxony Anhalt is the sixth smallest state in Germany by area. It has 2.45 million inhabitants, so it is the fifth smallest state in Germany by population. The capital is Erfurt.
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History
- 1920 the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar, the Duchies of Saxe-Meiningen, Saxe-Altenburg and Saxe-Gotha (part of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha) and the Principalities of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Greiz and Gera united to make the Free State of Thuringia.
- 1949 Thuringia and Erfurt became a new state of the DDR
- 1952 It became divided in three Districts Bezirke (Erfurt, Gera and Suhl)
- 1990 Thuringia became a Bundesland in the reunited Germany.
Geography
Thuringia borders on the German states of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, Bavaria and Hesse. The most conspicuous geographical feature of Thuringia is the Thuringia Forest (Thüringer Wald). In the northwest Thuringia includes a small part of the Harz mountains. The Saale river runs through Jena. The biggest mountain in Thuringia is with 982m the Großer Beerberg in the Thuringia Forest.
List of Minister-Presidents of Thuringia
- 1945: Hermann Brill
- 1945 - 1947: Rudolf Paul
- 1947 - 1952: Werner Eggerath
- 1990 - 1992: Josef Duchac
- 1992 - 2003: Bernhard Vogel (CDU)
- since 2003: Dieter Althaus (CDU)
Cities in Thuringia
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| States | Baden-Württemberg · Bavaria · Brandenburg · Hesse · Lower Saxony ·Mecklenburg-Vorpommern · North Rhine-Westphalia · Rhineland-Palatinate · Saarland · Saxony · Saxony-Anhalt · Schleswig-Holstein · Thuringia | .svg) |
| City States | Berlin · Bremen · Hamburg | |
| Former states | Baden · Württemberg-Baden · Württemberg-Hohenzollern | |
