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'''FIGURE 10. Historic inner city of Leipzig (U/OU)''' (photo)

The strategic area contains a large petroleum refinery and an important chemical center at Leuna (population estimated at 12,000). Large rubber tire factories and steel plants are at Riesa (population estimated at 50,000), and important motor vehicle, compressor, and coke and chemical plants are at Zwickau (population estimated at 128,000). The largest uranium ore-concentrating plant in the world is located northwest of Zwickau. Erfurt (Figure 12) is an important center for manufacturing telecommunications equipment (population estimated at 197,000).

Other cities and towns in the strategic area produce mining, electrical, and heavy equipment, agricultural and industrial machinery, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, textiles, precision instruments, motor vehicles, rolling stock, machine tools, and refined metals. Extensive deposits of brown coal in the

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