page_title: Elbe
section_title: Towns and cities
hierarchical_section_title: Elbe / Towns and cities
caption_attribution_description: English: Dresden: Inner old town at early dusk as seen from the Marienbruecke (Mary's bridge) Deutsch: Dresden: Innere Altstadt zu Beginn der Dämmerung, von der Marienbrücke aus gesehen
context_page_description: The Elbe is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It rises in the Krkonoše Mountains of the northern Czech Republic before traversing much of Bohemia, then Germany and flowing into the North Sea at Cuxhaven, 110 km northwest of Hamburg. Its total length is 1,094 kilometres.
  The Elbe's major tributaries include the rivers Vltava, Saale, Havel, Mulde, Schwarze Elster, and Ohře.
  The Elbe river basin, comprising the Elbe and its tributaries, has a catchment area of 148,268 square kilometres, the twelfth largest in Europe. The basin spans four countries, however it lies almost entirely just in two of them, Germany and the Czech Republic. Marginally, the basin stretches also to Austria and Poland. The Elbe catchment area is inhabited by 24.4 million people, the biggest cities within are Berlin, Hamburg, Prague, Dresden and Leipzig.
caption: The Elbe passing Dresden
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