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| Name | Estimated Population (January 1973) | Coordinates | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mlada Boleslav | 32,000 | 50°25'N., 14°54'E. | Industrially and militarily significant town in Stredocesky Kraj (Central Bohemian Region). Site of the largest automobile plant, with continuous production lines, in country. Output about 150,000 Skoda passenger cars per year accounts for about 90% of the national production. Also production of some trucks and buses. Significant production of batteries. About 7 miles to the north is one of the largest Skoda truck assembly plants. Barracks for 3,000 troops. Large concentration of Soviet occupation troops. Two military airfields with permanent runways 11 miles northeast and 12 miles north-northwest of city, respectively; the latter is a modern home base for fighter aircraft in regimental strength, occupied presently by Soviet troops; the former is an intermediate-range bomber-capable base. Rail and highway center on principal routes to East Germany. |
| Most | 57,000 | 50°32'N., 13°39'E. | City and its environs are one of the most important industrial complexes in Severocesky Kraj (North Bohemian Region). Site of one of the country's leading chemical enterprises producing gasoline, aviation fuel, gas, ammonia (30% of national output), ethyl alcohol, phenol, liquid oxygen and other chemicals. The enterprise is in process of a changeover from processing (hydrogenation) of coal to the second largest petrochemical complex in the country based on crude oil piped from the U.S.S.R. A wide variety of plastic materials will be added to the products by 1974. POL storage capacity 1,750,000 barrels. The town is the center of the country's richest deposit of excellent brown coal, extending from Chomutov to Usti nad Labem (see under these towns), and accounting for ⅔ of the entire brown coal production; about 40 mines and enterprises. Mining activities have resulted in considerably changes in the area by relocating urban areas (Figure 31), villages, railroad lines, and roads. Electric powerplant concentration, nearly 2,000,000 kw. Rail and road junction; major classification yard. |
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