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Wolfsburg (German: [ˈvɔlfsbʊʁk] ⓘ; Eastphalian: Wulfsborg) is the fifth-largest city in the German state of Lower Saxony, located on the river Aller. It lies about 75 kilometres (47 mi) east of Hanover and 230 kilometres (143 mi) west of Berlin .
Rivers that flow into the sea are sorted geographically, along the coast. Rivers that flow into other rivers are sorted by the proximity of their points of confluence to the sea (the lower in the list, the more upstream). Some rivers (the Meuse, for example) do not flow through Germany themselves, but they are mentioned for having German ...
Route of the Kleine Aller west of the Vorsfelder Werder. 18th century map. The Kleine Aller is a tributary of the Aller in the German state of Lower Saxony.It is about 23 kilometres (14 mi) long and up to 5 metres (16 ft) wide, and flows from north to south through the district of Gifhorn and the city of Wolfsburg.
The river's name, which was recorded in 781 as Alera, in 803 as Elera, in 1096 as Alara, has two possible derivations: . A shortened form of *Eleraha, where *Eler in Old German *olisa or Old Slavic olsa (Polish: olsza) would mean Erle ("alder") and aha (pronounced in German: Acha) is an old word frequently used in river names to mean "water" (c.f. the Latin aqua).
The Ohre is a river in northern Germany, left tributary to the Elbe. Its total length is 103 kilometres (64 mi). Its source is north of Wolfsburg, in Lower Saxony. It flows generally south-east, at first following the border of Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. After Buchhorst it flows completely through Saxony-Anhalt, along the Mittellandkanal.
Map of Lower Saxony. Lower Saxony [a] is a German state (Land) in northwestern Germany.It is the second-largest state by land area, with 47,614 km 2 (18,384 sq mi), and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 Länder of the Federal Republic of Germany.
After partitioning of Germany following the Second World War, the Mittelland Canal was split between West Germany and East Germany, with the border to the east of Wolfsburg. To provide access from the western section of the canal to Hamburg and Northern Germany , avoiding both East Germany and the Elbe River's sometimes limited navigability ...
Deutsch: Lage von Germany in Europe (-rivers -mini map) in Europa. English: Location of Germany in Europe (-rivers -mini map) in Europe. Date: 17 March 2011: Source ...