Elbe - traduction vers français
![The Elbe flows through [[Magdeburg]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Aerial view of the Sternbrücke in Magdeburg 02.jpg?width=200 "The Elbe flows through [[Magdeburg]]")
![The [[Port of Hamburg]] on the Elbe](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/CTB-CTW Port of Hamburg-Waltershof.jpg?width=200 "The [[Port of Hamburg]] on the Elbe")
![The Elbe passing [[Dresden]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dresden-Altstadt von der Marienbruecke-II.jpg?width=200 "The Elbe passing [[Dresden]]")
![The mouth of the Elbe with the island of [[Trischen]] in the [[North Sea]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Germany (1), Elbe, Trischen.jpg?width=200 "The mouth of the Elbe with the island of [[Trischen]] in the [[North Sea]]")
![The Elbe near [[Festung Königstein]] in Germany](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Koenigstein Saxony pic01 2007 04 22.jpg?width=200 "The Elbe near [[Festung Königstein]] in Germany")
Wikipédia
The Elbe (German: [ˈɛlbə] (listen); Czech: Labe [ˈlabɛ] (listen); Low German: Ilv or Elv; Upper and Lower Sorbian: Łobjo) is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It rises in the Giant Mountains of the northern Czech Republic before traversing much of Bohemia (western half of the Czech Republic), then Germany and flowing into the North Sea at Cuxhaven, 110 kilometres (68 miles) northwest of Hamburg. Its total length is 1,094 km (680 mi).
The Elbe's major tributaries include the rivers Vltava, Saale, Havel, Mulde, Schwarze Elster, and Ohře.
The Elbe river basin, comprising the Elbe and its tributaries, has a catchment area of 148,268 square kilometres (57,247 sq mi), the twelfth largest in Europe. The basin spans four countries, however it lies almost entirely just in two of them, Germany (65.5%) and the Czech Republic (33.7%, covering about two thirds of the state's territory). Marginally, the basin stretches also to Austria (0.6%) and Poland (0.2%). The Elbe catchment area is inhabited by 24.4 million people, the biggest cities within are Berlin, Hamburg, Prague, Dresden and Leipzig.
