Abstract
The Saarland borders in the east and north on the German Federal Republic, in the west and south on Luxemburg and France. It has an area of 2,567 sq. km. and (1951) a population of 956,570 (361 to the sq. km.). Its capital is Saarbrücken (112,000 inhabitants). The official language is German.
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Statistisches Handbuch des Saarlandes. (Published by Statistisches Amt.) 1950.
Saarländische Bevölkerungs-und Wirtschaftszahlen. (Published by Statistisches Amt.) 1949 ff.
Cowan (L. G.), France and the Saar, 1680–1948. New York, 1950.
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Steinberg, S.H. (1953). Saarland. In: Steinberg, S.H. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270824_66
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