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'''FIGURE 9. Saxony strategic area (C)''' (map)

cameras. Other important products are telecommunications equipment, machine tools, chemicals and chemical equipment, steel, and precision instruments. In Dresden and its environs are numerous institutes and technical schools, one of which has the only nuclear research reactor in East Germany.

Karl-Marx-Stadt is the country's largest producer of textile machinery, machine tools, precision instruments, and small weapons. Equipment for telecommunications, chemical, and electrical uses are also manufactured here.

Halle contains the most important railroad care plant in the country, the only plant producing synthetic rubber, and important chemical, petroleum products, industrial machinery, and motor vehicle plants.

Magdeburg (Figure 11) is one of the largest inland ports in the country and has major shipbuilding and repair facilities. The city is the most important heavy machine building center in the nation and an important producer of chemical equipment. It is also a significant producer of iron and steel, explosives, tractors, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals.

Jena (population estimated at 91,000) is the only producer of infrared components and is the principal optical glass and pharmaceutical center In the country.

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