Regional capital:

Hanover

Population:

8 million

Area:

47,620 km²

Location:

Direct access to the North Sea; borders on the Hanseatic cities of Hamburg and Bremen, the federal states of Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Hessen and North-Rhine Westphalia, as well as on the neighboring country of The Netherlands.

Gross domestic product in 2008:

Euro 213.8 billion

Volume of exports in 2008:

Total value Euro 77 billion

Lower Saxony’s share in German
chemical total sales in 2008:

5.9 percent

Chemical total sales in 2008:

Euro 10.3 billion