Original: Neighboring districts are (from the north clockwise) Harz and Mansfeld-S üdharz in Saxony-Anhalt, the district Kyffhäuserkreis, Eichsfeld in Thuringia and the districts Osterode and Goslar in Lower Saxony.
Simplified: Nordhausen is the northernmeost Landkreis (rural district) of Thuringia, Germany.