Dresden (deu)

Dresden

Dresden ranks 75th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Lyon, Osaka Prefecture, and Gothenburg. Memorable people born in Dresden include Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor, Augustus II the Strong, and Augustus III of Poland. Memorable people who died in Dresden include Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony, Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland, and Jörg Stübner. Dresden has been the birth place of many politicians, and athletes and the death place of many politicians, and composers. Dresden is located in Germany.

Dresden is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth largest by area, and the third-most populous city in the area of former East Germany, after Berlin and Leipzig. Dresden's urban area comprises the towns of Freital, Pirna, Radebeul, Meissen, Coswig, Radeberg, and Heidenau and has around 790,000 inhabitants. The Dresden metropolitan area has approximately 1.34 million inhabitants. Read more on Wikipedia