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Country | Germany |
State | Saxony |
Capital | Borna |
Government | |
• District admin. | Henry Graichen (CDU) |
Area | |
• Total | 1,646 km2 (636 sq mi) |
Population (31 December 2021) [1] | |
• Total | 258,214 |
• Density | 160/km2 (410/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
Vehicle registration | L, BNA, GHA, GRM, MTL, WUR |
Website | www |
Leipzig (official name: Landkreis Leipzig) is a district (Kreis) in the Free State of Saxony in eastern Germany. It is named after the city of Leipzig, which borders onto the district, but the city is not part of the district. Leipzig district has borders with (from the west and clockwise) the state of Saxony-Anhalt, the urban district of Leipzig, the districts of Nordsachsen and Mittelsachsen, and the state of Thuringia.
The district is located in the lowlands around Leipzig, the Leipzig Bay, and is rather flat. Individual hills are found in the north (Hohburg Hills) and south of the district. Its main rivers are the Mulde, Pleiße and White Elster. Also worth mentioning are the many lakes of the Leipzig Neuseenland in the west of the county, which were formed by deliberately flooding old brown coal pits.
The district was established by merging the former districts Muldentalkreis and Leipziger Land as part of the district reform of August 2008.
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The classification of natural regions of Saxony shown here was produced between 1994 and 2001 by a working group called "Ecosystem and Regional Character" at the Saxonian Academy of Sciences in Leipzig as part of the research and development project "Natural Regions and Natural Region Potential of the Free State of Saxony" at a scale of 1:50,000 as the basis for the rural development and regional planning. This was also supported by the Saxon State Ministry of the Environment and Agriculture and the Saxon Ministry of the Interior.
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