Thuringia

Thuringia Freistaat Thüringen
State of Germany
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Position of Thuringia in Germany
Country	Germany
Capital	Erfurt
Government
• Minister President	Bodo Ramelow (Linke)
• Governing parties	Linke / SPD / Greens
Area
• Total	16,171 km2 (6,244 sq mi)
Population  (2020-12-31)
• Total	2,120,237
• Density	130/km2 (340/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Website	thueringen.de

Thuringia (German: Thüringen) is a Bundesland of Germany. It lies in central Germany and has an area of 16,251 km² (6,274.5 sq mi). This means Thuringia is the sixth smallest state in Germany by area. It has 2.1 million inhabitants,^[1] so it is the fifth smallest state in Germany by population. The capital is Erfurt.

1. ↑ "Thüringer Landesamt für Statistik". statistik.thueringen.de. Retrieved 2021-07-21.