Sorbian population in the middle of the 19th century: +Counties with large numbers of Sorbs in the middle of the 19th centuryRegionCountyCensus yearTotal populationSorbian population% of SorbsRegierungsbezirk FrankfurtCottbus1846492483352268.1%Regierungsbezirk FrankfurtSpremberg184314092918365.2%Regierungsbezirk FrankfurtLübben1858315661242739.4%Regierungsbezirk FrankfurtCalau1849433631214328.0%Regierungsbezirk FrankfurtSorau1858718261011614.1%Regierungsbezirk LiegnitzHoyerswerda1855300681722357.3%Regierungsbezirk LiegnitzRothenburg1843428911426733.3%SaxonyKönigswartha18617407638586.2%SaxonyWeißenberg18616579477772.6%SaxonyBautzen1861370962314862.4%SaxonyKamenz186123564784733.3%SaxonyLöbau186127260408915.0%SaxonySchirgiswalde186116636219613.2%SaxonyBischofswerda18612105116427.8% thumb|Sorbian population in the German Empire in years 1843-1861 Sorbs are divided into two ethnographical groups: Upper Sorbs (about 40,000 people).Petr Kaleta: Češi o Lužických Srbech. Prague,2006. Page 15. Lower Sorbs, who speak Lower Sorbian (about 15–20,000 people).
Sorbian population in the middle of the 19th century: +Counties with large numbers of Sorbs in the middle of the 19th centuryRegionCountyCensus yearTotal populationSorbian population% of SorbsRegierungsbezirk FrankfurtCottbus1846492483?352268.1%Regierungsbezirk FrankfurtSpremberg184314092918365.2%Regierungsbezirk FrankfurtLübben1858315661242739.4%Regierungsbezirk FrankfurtCalau1849433631214328.0%Regierungsbezirk FrankfurtSorau1858718261011614.1%Regierungsbezirk LiegnitzHoyerswerda1855300681722357.3%Regierungsbezirk LiegnitzRothenburg1843428911426733.3%SaxonyKönigswartha18617407638586.2%SaxonyWeißenberg18616579477772.6%SaxonyBautzen1861370962314862.4%SaxonyKamenz186123564784733.3%SaxonyLöbau186127260408915.0%SaxonySchirgiswalde186116636219613.2%SaxonyBischofswerda18612105116427.8% thumb|Sorbian population in the German Empire in years 1843-1861 Sorbs are divided into two ethnographical groups: Upper Sorbs (about 40,000 people).Petr Kaleta: Češi o Lužických Srbech. Prague,2006. Page 15. Lower Sorbs, who speak Lower Sorbian (about 15–20,000 people).