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Town in Saarland, Germany
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Saarlouis is a city and district (Kreis) in Saarland. With close to 200,000 inhabitants, it is the second most populous district in Saarland after neighbouring Saarbrücken, though only about 35,000 live in the city of Saarlouis itself. The rest of the population is quite evenly distributed among other cities, towns and municipalities, which are generally concentrated around steel mills and other industrial plants. Saarlouis itself has been serving mainly as workers' accommodation for one, and today is the seat of one of the largest Ford assembly plants in the world.
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The easiest way to get to Saarlouis is via Saarbrücken, which lies on the Frankfurt-Paris high-speed railway line and has direct connections to many other German cities, as well as an international…
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