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- Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the
- USSR, it lies W of the Volga, 560 km/350 mi E
- of Moscow; area 18,300 sq km /7,100 sq mi;
- population (1986) 1,320,000. The capital is
- Cheboksary, population (1985) 389,000. The
- economy is based on lumbering and
- grain-growing and there are phosphate and
- limestone deposits and electrical and
- engineering industries.
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