Gera is the third-lairgest ceety in Thuringie, Germany, locatit 55 kilometre sooth o Leipzig, 75 km east o Erfurt an 120 km wast o Dresden. Thegither wi the neighbour-ceeties Chemnitz, Zwickau an Plauen it furms a polycentric auld-industrial textile an metal production region wi mair nor 1 million indwallers, while the ceety itself haes a population o 95,000.