Chemnitz

Chemnitz (Sorbian/Lusatian Kamjenica, formerly called Karl-Marx-Stadt) is a city in Saxony, Germany. It is located in the northern foothills of the Ore Mountains. The city has a population of 248,021 ( 31. march 2005), and an area of 220.8 km².

Twin cities

Chemnitz has miscellaneous twin cities:

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• Tampere, Finland, since October, 1961
• Ljubljana, Slovenia, since October 17, 1966
• Arras, France, since 1967
• Timbuktu, Mali, since October 6, 1968
• Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic, since July 17, 1970
• Lodz, Poland, since 1974
• Mulhouse, France, since October 7, 1981
• Manchester, Great Britain, since March 18, 1983
• Volgograd, Russia, since May 6, 1988
• Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, since April 13, 1988
• Akron, Ohio, United States, since April 20, 1997
• Taiyuan, People's Republic of China, since May 17, 1999