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Gera

Gera ranks 1,101st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Borås, Eger, and Kaifeng. Memorable people born in Gera include Thilo Sarrazin, Heike Drechsler, and Marlies Göhr. Memorable people who died in Gera include Duchess Agnes of Württemberg, and Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line. Gera has been the birth place of many soccer players, and politicians and the death place of many writers, and politicians. Gera is located in Germany.

Gera is a city in the German state of Thuringia. With around 93,000 inhabitants, it is the third-largest city in Thuringia after Erfurt and Jena as well as the easternmost city of the Thüringer Städtekette, an almost straight string of cities consisting of the six largest Thuringian cities from Eisenach in the west, via Gotha, Erfurt, Weimar and Jena to Gera in the east. Gera is the largest city in the Vogtland, and one of its historical capitals along with Plauen, Greiz and Weida. The city lies in the East Thuringian Hill Country, in the wide valley of the White Elster, between Greiz (upstream) and Leipzig (downstream). Gera is located in the Central German Metropolitan Region, approximately 60 kilometres south of Saxony's largest city of Leipzig, 80 km east of Thuringia's capital Erfurt, 120 km west of Saxony's capital Dresden and 90 km north of Bavaria's city of Hof (Saale). Read more on Wikipedia