Leipzig (destrict)
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Leipzig (offeecial name: Landkreis Leipzig) is a destrict (Kreis) in the Free State o Saxony, Germany. It is namit efter the ceety Leipzig, which is surroondit bi the destrict, but no pairt o it. It borders (frae the wast an clockwise) the state o Saxony-Anhalt, the urban destrict Leipzig, the destricts Nordsachsen an Mittelsachsen, an the state o Thuringie.
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The destrict is locatit in the Leipzig Bay an is rather flat. Individual hills are foond in the north (Hohburg Hills) an sooth o the destrict. Its lairger rivers are the Mulde, Pleiße an White Elster. An aw wirth mentionin are the mony lakes o the Leipzig Neuseenland in the wast o the coonty, that wur formit bi floodin auld broun coal pits.
History
The destrict wis established bi mergin the umwhile destricts Muldentalkreis an Leipziger Land as pairt o the destrict reform o August 2008.
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Geography
The destrict is locatit in the lawlands aroond Leipzig. The main rivers o the destrict are the Mulde, the Weiße Elster an the Pleiße.
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