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Leipzig is located about 150 km (90 mi) southwest of Berlin, in the southernmost part of the North German Plain (the Leipzig Bay), at the confluence of the White Elster and its tributaries Pleiße and Parthe. The Leipzig Riverside Forest, Europe's largest intra-city riparian forest, has developed along these rivers.
Leipzig is one of the three former Direktionsbezirke of Saxony, Germany, located in the north-west of the state. It coincided with the Planungsregion Westsachsen. It was disbanded in March 2012.
Map of metropolitan regions by Eurostat in 2021. A metropolitan region's gross domestic product, or GDP, is one of several measures of the size of its economy.Similar to GDP, GMP is defined as the market value of all final goods and services produced within a metropolitan region in a given period of time.
General map of Germany. This is a complete list of the 2,056 cities and towns in Germany (as of 1 January 2024). [1] [2] There is no distinction between town and city in Germany; a Stadt is an independent municipality (see Municipalities of Germany) that has been given the right to use that title.
This is a list of European Union regions (NUTS2 regions) sorted by their gross domestic product (GDP). Eurostat calculates the GDP based on the information provided by national statistics institutes affiliated to Eurostat. The list presents statistics for 2023 from Eurostat, as of 11 February 2025.
Leipzig-Halle airport serves as the main airport of the region. It is the second largest freight airport in Germany and a hub of DHL 's express service. The metropolitan region association has set up a working group on traffic and mobility, the members of which are delegated from various regional stakeholders, i.e. state ministries, cities ...
The five most important regions, collectively often called the Big Five, [4] [5] are frequently compared with other European metropolitan regions (EMR) in terms of investment and market development. [6]
In classical antiquity, Europe was assumed to cover the quarter of the globe north of the Mediterranean, an arrangement that was adhered to in medieval T and O maps. Ptolemy's world map of the 2nd century already had a reasonably precise description of southern and western Europe, but was unaware of particulars of northern and eastern Europe.