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Varazdin
A city on the right bank of the Drava river in north-western Croatia, 79 km northeast of Zagreb; elevation 173 m; population 42,952. Economic and cultural centre of the Zagorje and Medimurje regions. Chief occupations include farming, viticulture and livestock breeding. Major manufactures are textiles (Varteks), artificial silk production (umbrellas), leather processing (footwear factory), food processing (fruit and vegetable canning, vegetable oil production), wood and timber, metallurgy (foundry, fittings factory), printing industry and tourism.
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