Lower Saxony

American  

[loh-er] / ˈloʊ ər /

noun

1. a state in NW Germany. 18,294 sq. mi. (47,380 sq. km). Hanover.

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Lower Saxony British  

noun

1. German name: Niedersachsen.  a state of N Germany, on the North Sea and including the E Frisian Islands: a leading European producer of petroleum. Capital: Hanover. Pop: 7 993 000 (2003 est). Area: 47 408 sq km (18 489 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

The infrastructure also includes salt caverns to store hydrogen underground, which Storengy Deutschland is building around an existing site for storing natural gas in Lower Saxony.

From BBC

Brückner is due in court on Thursday morning in Lehrte, Lower Saxony, to face the charge of insulting a prison staff member, a court official told the BBC.

From BBC

They will do so amid the verdant surroundings of Lower Saxony where the watch towers, fences and buildings have gone.

From BBC

The scientists used a unique empirical dataset, taking data from 40 plots of mature European beech forests across the state of Lower Saxony in Germany.

From Science Daily

Brückner's trial is being heard by judges - not a jury - in Braunschweig, in the north-western state of Lower Saxony, because that was where Brückner was last officially registered.

From BBC