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Saalekreis is a district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The district seat is Merseburg. Its area is . It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the districts Kyffhäuserkreis (Thuringia), Mansfeld-Südharz, Salzlandkreis, Anhalt-Bitterfeld, Nordsachsen, Leipzig (both Saxony) and Burgenlandkreis. The district-free city of Halle is surrounded by the Saalekreis.

Key facts

District DE.area
1434.2
District DE.name
Saalekreis
District DE.image_flag
Flagge Saalekreis.svg
District DE.image_coa
Wappen Saalekreis.svg
District DE.state
Saxony-Anhalt
District DE.capital
Merseburg
District DE.Kreisschlüssel
15088
District DE.district_admin
Hartmut Handschak
District DE.carsign
SK, MER, MQ, QFT
District DE.url
www.saalekreis.de

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Saalekreis is a district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The district seat is Merseburg. Its area is . It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the districts Kyffhäuserkreis (Thuringia), Mansfeld-Südharz, Salzlandkreis, Anhalt-Bitterfeld, Nordsachsen, Leipzig (both Saxony) and Burgenlandkreis. The district-free city of Halle is surrounded by the Saalekreis.

== History == The district was established by merging the former districts of Merseburg-Querfurt and Saalkreis as part of the district reform of 2007.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Saalekreis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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