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The River Elbe (Czech:  Labe (help·info); German: die Elbe; Low German: de Ilv) is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It originates in the Krkonoše Mountains of northwestern Czech Republic before traversing much of Bohemia (Czech Republic), then Germany and flowing into the North Sea at Cuxhaven, 110 km northwest of Hamburg. Its total length is 1,094 kilometres (680 mi).
The Elbe’s major tributaries include the Vltava, Saale, Havel, Mulde, Schwarze Elster, and Ohre rivers.
The Elbe River basin, comprising the Elbe and its tributaries, has a catchment area of 148,268 square kilometres (57,247 sq mi), the fourth largest in Europe. The basin spans four countries, with its largest parts in Germany (65.5%) and the Czech Republic (33.7%). Much smaller parts lie in Austria (0.6%) and Poland (0.2%). The basin is inhabited by 24.5 million people.
Geography
Mountains: Harz - Brocken - List of mountains and hills in Saxony-Anhalt - List of mountains in the Harz
Rivers: Aland - Aller - Bode - Dosse - Eine - Elbe - Hassel - Havel - Helme - Holtemme - Ilse - Jeetzel - Luppbode - Mulde - Ohre - Rappbode - Saale - Salzwedel Dumme - Schlenze - Schwarze Elster - Tanger - Unstrut - Weisse Elster - Wipper - Wustrow Dumme - Zillierbach
Important cities and towns: Magdeburg - Aschersleben - Bernburg (Saale) - Bitterfeld-Wolfen - Blankenburg (Harz) - Burg - Calbe (Saale) - Dessau-Roßlau - Eisleben - Freyburg (Unstrut) - Gardelegen - Genthin - Gernrode - Halberstadt - Haldensleben - Halle (Saale) - Havelberg - Hettstedt - Jessen (Elster) - Kalbe (Milde) - Klötze - Köthen (Anhalt) - Leuna - Merseburg - Naumburg (Saale) - Oebisfelde - Oschersleben (Bode) - Quedlinburg - Salzwedel - Sangerhausen - Schönebeck (Elbe) - Staßfurt - Stendal - Tangerhütte - Tangermünde - Thale - Weißenfels - Wernigerode - Wittenberg - Zeitz - Zerbst/Anhalt
Regions: Altmark - Harz - Saale-Unstrut Region
Landscapes: Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm - Eastphalia - Fläming - Geisel valley - Harz Foreland - Magdeburg Börde
Districts and independent towns: Anhalt-Bitterfeld - Altmarkkreis Salzwedel - Börde - Burgenlandkreis - Dessau-Roßlau - Harz - Halle (Saale) - Jerichower Land - Magdeburg - Mansfeld-Südharz - Saalekreis - Salzlandkreis - Stendal - Wittenberg
History
History: Nebra sky disc - Thietmar of Merseburg - Eike von Repgow - Province of Saxony - Anhalt - Province of Halle - Province of Magdeburg - Albert the Bear - Cardinal Albert - Reformation - Ascania - Fruitbearing Society
Historic people: Henry the Fowler - Otto I - Otto II - Otto III - Margrave of Gero - Leopold III Frederick Franz - Louis I, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen - Samuel Hahnemann - Otto von Guericke
World Heritage Sites: Castle and Old Town of Quedlinburg - Luther sites in Eisleben and Wittenberg - Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm - Bauhaus Dessau
Transport, Tourism and Media
Transport: America Line - Magdeburg Water Bridge - Mittelland Canal - Elbe-Havel Canal - Elbe - Havel - Leipzig/Halle Airport
Tourism: Romanesque Road - Arendsee - Via Regia
Media: MDR - Sputnik
Personlities
Art: Lucas Cranach - Wassily Kandinsky - Paul Klee
Philosophy: Friedrich Schleiermacher - Christian Thomasius - Christian Wolff - Philipp Melanchthon
Pedagogy: Johann Bernhard Basedow - August Hermann Francke
Literature: Clemens Brentano - Gottfried August Bürger - Johann Gleim - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock - Carl Immermann - Wilhelm Müller - Novalis.
Technology: Hans Grade - Hugo Junkers
Medicine: Dorothea Erxleben - Johann Christian Reil
Music: Heinrich Schütz - Johann Sebastian Bach - Georg Philipp Telemann - Georg Friedrich Händel - Carl Friedrich Abel - Kurt Weill - Tokio Hotel - Lied für Sachsen-Anhalt
Religion: Martin Luther - Justus Jonas - Johannes Bugenhagen - Mechthild of Magdeburg - Wolfgang, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen - Erzbischof Wichmann
Politics: Otto von Bismarck - Wolfgang Böhmer - Hans Dietrich Genscher
TV: Dieter Hallervorden
Miscellaneous:
Sport: Stefan Kretzschmar - SC Magdeburg - 1. FC Magdeburg (List of 1. FC Magdeburg players) - Hallescher FC - Germania Halberstadt - Erich Rademacher - Gustav-Adolf Schur - Waldemar Cierpinski - 1. FC Aschersleben
Folk festivals:
Miscellaneous: Magdeburg hemispheres
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