The Kleiner Landgraben is a small river of

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MV; ; nds, Mäkelborg-Vörpommern), also known by its anglicized name Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania, is a state in the north-east of Germany. Of the country's sixteen states, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ranks 14th in po ...

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. Collecting the water of a wetland and lateral sources, it is drained in both directions, in the south into

Tollense The Tollense (, from Slavic ''dolenica'' "lowland, (flat) valley") is a river in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in northeastern Germany, right tributary of the Peene. It has a total length of 95.8 km. The upper course begins near a small lake na ...

River, and to the north into the

Großer Landgraben The Großer Landgraben is a river of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is formed at the confluence of Landgraben (west-flowing branch), Kleiner Landgraben (north-flowing branch) and Mittelgraben near Siedenbollentin. It flows into the Tolle ...

, another affluent of Tollense River. Therefore, Kleiner Landgraben is a pseudobifurcation. The meaning of ''Kleiner Landgraben'' is something like "Small Border Canal". For several centuries it was part of the border between

Mecklenburg Mecklenburg (; nds, label= Low German, Mękel(n)borg ) is a historical region in northern Germany comprising the western and larger part of the federal-state Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The largest cities of the region are Rostock, Schweri ...

and

Pomerania Pomerania ( pl, Pomorze; german: Pommern; Kashubian: ''Pòmòrskô''; sv, Pommern) is a historical region on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea in Central Europe, split between Poland and Germany. The western part of Pomerania belongs to ...

. The Landgraben drains one of the broad

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valleys of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. In these valleys, there is no strict discrimination between natural and artificial courses of water.

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