High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The Free State of Saxony (German: Freistaat Sachsen; Upper Sorbian: Swobodny stat Sakska) is a landlocked state of Germany, contingent with Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, the Czech Republic and Poland. It is the tenth-largest German state in area, with (18,413 square kilometres (7,109 sq mi), and the sixth most-populous (4.3 million) of Germany's sixteen states.