Geography
Altenburger Land is the easternmost district of Thuringia. It is a mainly agricultural region. The main river is the Pleiße, an affluent of the Weiße Elster, crossing the district from south to north. The hilly Osterland constituting the northernmost foothills of the Ore Mountains slopes gently away to the plains of eastern Saxony-Anhalt.
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