Editing Lower Saxony (section)

===Largest towns===
{{See also|List of cities in Lower Saxony by population}}
The largest towns in Lower Saxony as of 31 December 2017:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.destatis.de/EN/Homepage.html|title=Homepage – Federal Statistical Office (Destatis)|website=www.destatis.de|access-date=6 July 2023|archive-date=17 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160717075757/https://www.destatis.de/EN/Homepage.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
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{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right; margin-right:60px "
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!Rank
!City
!Population
|-
|align=left|1
|align=left|[[Hanover]]
|535,061
|-
|align=left|2
|align=left|[[Braunschweig]]
|248,023
|-
|align=left|3
|align=left|[[Oldenburg (city)|Oldenburg]]
|167,081
|-
|align=left|4
|align=left|[[Osnabrück]]
|164,374
|-
| align="left" |5
| align="left" |[[Wolfsburg]]
|123,914
|-
|align=left|6
|align=left|[[Göttingen]]
|119,529
|-
|align=left|7
|align=left|[[Salzgitter]]
|104,548
|-
| align="left" |8
| align="left" |[[Hildesheim]]
|101,744
|-
| align="left" |9
| align="left" |[[Delmenhorst]]
|77,521
|-
| align="left" |10
| align="left" |[[Wilhelmshaven]]
|76,316
|-
|align=left|11
|align=left|[[Lüneburg]]
|75,192
|-
|align=left|12
|align=left|[[Celle]]
|69,706
|-
| align="left" |13
| align="left" |[[Garbsen]]
|60,875
|-
| align="left" |14
| align="left" |[[Hamelin]]
|57,228
|-
| align="left" |15
| align="left" |[[Lingen (Ems)]]
|54,117
|-
|align=left|16
|align=left|[[Langenhagen]]
|53,790
|-
|align=left|17
|align=left|[[Nordhorn]]
|53,278
|-
| align="left" |18
| align="left" |[[Wolfenbüttel]]
|52,357
|-
| align="left" |19
| align="left" |[[Goslar]]
|51,128
|-
| align="left" |20
| align="left" |[[Emden]]
|50,607
|}

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File:Hannover City.jpg|[[Hanover]] - [[Capital city|capital]] and largest city of Lower Saxony
File:Braunschweig Luftaufnahme Innenstadt (2011).JPG|City center of [[Braunschweig]]
File:Hildesheim - Blick vom Berghözchen.jpg|City center of [[Hildesheim]] with [[St. Andreas, Hildesheim|St. Andrew's]], the tallest church in Lower Saxony, and [[Hildesheim Cathedral]], a [[UNESCO World Heritage Site]]
File:Lüneburg Innenstadt Luftaufnahme 02.jpg|Old town of the Hanseatic City of [[Lüneburg]]
File:Cuxhaven_07-2016_photo19_port_area.jpg|[[Cuxhaven]] port
File:Goettingen Marktplatz Oct06 Antilived.jpg|[[Göttingen]] market square and the old town hall
File:Luftaufnahmen Nordseekueste 2013 05 by-RaBoe tele 46.jpg|City center of [[Oldenburg (city)|Oldenburg]]
File:Celle4.jpg|Old town of [[Celle]]
File:Volkswagenwerk WOB von Osten.jpg|[[Wolfsburg Volkswagen Plant|Volkswagen headquarters and factory]] in [[Wolfsburg]]
File:Luftaufnahmen Nordseekueste 2012 05 D50 by-RaBoe 054.jpg|[[Wilhelmshaven]] with the [[North Sea]]
File:Am Marktplatz Osnabrück.jpg|Old town of [[Osnabrück]]
File:Lichtenberg Salzgitter sicht aus Burgturm - panoramio.jpg|[[Salzgitter]] with the [[Salzgitter AG]] steel plant
File:Marktkirche Goslar.jpg|View of the old town of [[Goslar]] and the [[Imperial Palace of Goslar|Imperial Palace]], both UNESCO World Heritage Sites
File:Emden Rathaus 001.jpg|Town hall of [[Emden]]
File:Am Markt, 3, Peine, Landkreis Peine.jpg|Market square of [[Peine]]
</gallery>