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  1. Administrative region (German Land) of
  2. W Germany area 35,800 sq km/13,819 sq mi
  3. capital Stuttgart towns Mannheim, Karlsruhe,
  4. Freiburg, Heidelberg, Heilbronn, Pforzheim,
  5. Ulm physical Black Forest; Rhine boundary
  6. S and W; source of the Danube; see also
  7. Swabia products wine, jewellery, watches,
  8. clocks, musical instruments, textiles,
  9. chemicals, iron, steel, electrical equipment,
  10. surgical instruments. 
  11. Population (1988) 9,390,000, history formed
  12. 1952 (following a plebiscite) by the merger
  13. of the Lander Baden, Wurttemberg-Baden, and
  14. Wurttemberg-Hohenzollern
  15.