Leipzig
Leipzig is a district 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality with 260,000 residents
- Description: district in the federal state of Saxony, Germany
- Also known as: “Landkreis Leipzig”, “Leipzig (district)”, and “Leipziger Land”
- Neighbors: Leipzig
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rohrbacher Teiche and Polish-Saxon Post Milestone Pomßen.
Rohrbacher Teiche
Nature reserve
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Rohrbacher Teiche is a nature reserve.
Polish-Saxon Post Milestone Pomßen
Historic site
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Polish-Saxon Post Milestone Pomßen is a historic site.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Großsteinberg and Pomßen.
Großsteinberg
Village
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Großsteinberg is a village, which is situated 4½ km northeast of Leipzig.
Pomßen
Village
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Pomßen is a village some 20 kilometres from Leipzig, Germany. Since 1994, it is part of the municipality of Parthenstein. There is a fortified church of architectural and historical interest.
Lindhardt
Village
Photo: Wolkenkratzer, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lindhardt is a village, which is situated 4 km north of Leipzig.
Leipzig
- Categories: rural district of Saxony and Option municipality
- Location: Saxony, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Aragonese to Western Frisian—“Leipzig” goes by many names.
- Aragonese: “Districto de Leipzig”
- Armenian: “Լայպցիգ”
- Belarusian: “Лейпцыг”
- Belarusian: “Ляйпцыг”
- Bulgarian: “Лайпциг”
- Catalan: “districte de Leipzig”
- Catalan: “Districte de Leipzig”
- Catalan: “Landkreis Leipzig”
- Cebuano: “Landkreis Leipzig”
- Chinese: “莱比锡县”
- Chinese: “萊比錫郡”
- Czech: “Zemský okres Leipzig”
- Czech: “Zemský okres Lipsko”
- Dutch: “Landkreis Leipzig”
- Esperanto: “Distrikto Leipzig”
- Estonian: “Leipzigi kreis”
- Finnish: “Leipzigin piirikunta”
- French: “arrondissement de Leipzig”
- French: “Arrondissement de Leipzig”
- French: “Leipzig”
- Georgian: “ლაიფციგის რაიონი”
- German: “Landkreis Leipzig”
- Hebrew: “חבל לייפציג”
- Hebrew: “מחוז לייפציג”
- Hungarian: “Lipcse (járás)”
- Interlingue: “Subdisrict Leipzig”
- Italian: “circondario di Lipsia”
- Italian: “Circondario di Lipsia”
- Japanese: “ライプツィヒ郡”
- Kazakh: “Лейпциг”
- Kurdish: “Leipzig”
- Ladin: “Landkreis Leipzig”
- Latvian: “Leipcigas apriņķis”
- Macedonian: “Лајпциг”
- Malay: “Leipzig”
- Northern Frisian: “Leipzig (Lönjkris)”
- Northern Frisian: “Leipzig”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Landkreis Leipzig”
- Norwegian: “Landkreis Leipzig”
- Persian: “لایپتسیگ (ناحیه)”
- Persian: “لایپتسیگ”
- Polish: “Landkreis Leipzig”
- Portuguese: “Leipzig (distrito)”
- Portuguese: “Leipzig”
- Russian: “Лейпциг”
- Saterfriesisch: “Leipzig”
- Scots: “Leipzig”
- Slovenian: “Deželno okrožje Leipzig”
- Slovenian: “Landkreis Leipzig”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Leipzig”
- Spanish: “Leipzig”
- Swedish: “Landkreis Leipzig”
- Turkish: “Landkreis Leipzig”
- Ukrainian: “Лейпциг”
- Upper Sorbian: “Wokrjes Lipsk”
- Uzbek: “Leipzig”
- Vietnamese: “Leipzig”
- Waray (Philippines): “Leipzig”
- Western Frisian: “Leipzig”
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