Central German Metropolitan Region

Central German Metropolitan Region
Central German Metropolitan Region
	; Region within Germany (pink)
	; Region within Germany (pink)
Country	Germany
States	Saxony; Saxony-Anhalt; Thuringia
	Area
• Metro	2,000 km2 (800 sq mi)
	Population (2008)
• Metro	2,400,000
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
Website	http://www.region-mitteldeutschland.com/en/

The Central German Metropolitan Region (Metropolregion Mitteldeutschland in German) is one of eleven metropolitan regions in Germany. It extends over parts of the German states of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia (near Berlin), the capital city of Germany, and approximately 170 km north of Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. The largest of the 11 member cities are Dresden and Leipzig in Saxony, Halle (Saale) and Magdeburg in Saxony-Anhalt and Erfurt in Thuringia. The member cities total 2.4 million people.

Cities [edit]

Chemnitz (245.500 inhabitants)
Dessau-Roßlau (87.000)
Dresden (512.500)
Erfurt (205.000)
Gera (99.000)
Halle (Saale) (233.000)
Jena (105.000)
Leipzig (515.300)
Magdeburg (231.500)
Weimar (65.000)
Zwickau (97.000)