Solution

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The polygon presentation of the Klein bottle, or Seifert-van Kampen theorem applied to its cell structure, gives
Send to and to in . Conjugation by inverts , so this defines a surjective group homomorphism. Since is nonabelian, the fundamental group is nonabelian.

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