Leipzig (destrict)

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.

 Geography 
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.  

 Touns an municipalities 
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! colspan=2 align=left width=50%|Municipalities
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Bad Lausick
Böhlen
Borna
Brandis
Colditz
Frohburg
Geithain
Grimma
Groitzsch
Kitzscher
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Kohren-Sahlis
Markkleeberg
Markranstädt
Naunhof
Pegau
Regis-Breitingen
Rötha
Trebsen 
Wurzen
Zwenkau
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Belgershain
Bennewitz
Borsdorf
Deutzen
Elstertrebnitz
Espenhain
Großpösna
Lossatal
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Machern
Narsdorf
Neukieritzsch
Otterwisch
Parthenstein
Thallwitz
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References

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Offeecial wabsteid (German)