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1 | ![]() | Warsaw ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 110 Lat/Lng : 52.2323 / 21.0084 | Warsaw (; see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula River in east-central Poland and its population is officially estimated at 1.765 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 3 (...) |
2 | Warsaw metropolitan area ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 116 Lat/Lng : 52.2333 / 21.0167 | The Warsaw metropolitan area (known in Polish as: Aglomeracja warszawska) is the metropolitan area of Warsaw, the capital of Poland. The metropolitan area covers ten countieshttp://www.warsawvoice.pl/view/5475 in the Masovian Voivodeship, with an area of 3,000 km² and a population of 3,101,000 in (...) | |
3 | ![]() | Krzeszowice ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 259 Lat/Lng : 50.1333 / 19.6333 | Krzeszowice is a town in southern Poland, situated in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship. As of 2004, its population was 9,993. Krzeszowice belongs to Kraków Metropolitan Area, and lies 25 kilometers west of the center of the city of Kraków (...) |
4 | ![]() | Dąbrowa Górnicza ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 283 Lat/Lng : 50.3167 / 19.2667 | Dąbrowa Górnicza is a city in Zagłębie Dąbrowskie, southern Poland, near Katowice and Sosnowiec. It is located in eastern part of the Silesian Voivodeship, on the Czarna Przemsza and Biała Przemsza rivers (tributaries of the Vistula, see Przemsza) (...) |
5 | Konstancin-Jeziorna ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 95 Lat/Lng : 52.0833 / 21.1167 | Konstancin-Jeziorna is a town in Piaseczno County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland, with 17,566 inhabitants (as of March 2011, according to GUS). It is located about south of downtown Warsaw and is a part of the metropolitan area of that city (...) | |
6 | ![]() | Mikołów ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 293 Lat/Lng : 50.1683 / 18.9031 | Mikołów is a town in Silesia, in southern Poland, near the city of Katowice. It borders the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union, a metropolis with a population of over 2 million, and is within a greater Silesian metropolitan area populated by about 5,294,000 people (...) |
7 | ![]() | Toruń ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 65 Lat/Lng : 53.0333 / 18.6167 | Toruń is a city in northern Poland, on the Vistula River. Its population was 202,591 as of June 2016. Previously it was the capital of the Toruń Voivodeship (1975–98) and the Pomeranian Voivodeship (1921–45). Since 1999, Toruń has been a seat of the self-government of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian (...) |
8 | ![]() | Kielce ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 266 Lat/Lng : 50.8725 / 20.6319 | Kielce is a city in south central Poland with 196,804 inhabitants. It has been the capital city of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship (Holy Cross Province) since 1999, and was previously the capital of the predecessor Kielce Voivodeship (1919–1939, 1945–1998) (...) |
9 | ![]() | Sopot ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 54.4419 / 18.5597 | Sopot (Kashubian: Sopòt; German: Zoppot) is a seaside resort city in Eastern Pomerania on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea in northern Poland, with a population of approximately 40,000. Sopot is a city with powiat (county) status, in Pomeranian Voivodeship (...) |
10 | ![]() | Katowice ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 266 Lat/Lng : 50.2649 / 19.0238 | Katowice (; ; ; officially Miasto Katowice) is a city in southern Poland, with a population of 297,197 and the center of the Silesian Metropolis, with a population of 2.2 million. Throughout the mid-18th century, Katowice had developed into a village upon the discovery of rich coal reserves in the (...) |
11 | ![]() | Wieliczka ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 249 Lat/Lng : 49.9833 / 20.0667 | Wieliczka (German: Groß Salze) is a town (2006 population: 19,128) in southern Poland in the Kraków metropolitan area, and situated (since 1999) in Lesser Poland Voivodeship; previously, it was in Kraków Voivodeship (1975–1998). The town was founded in 1290 by Duke Premislas II of Poland (...) |
12 | ![]() | Poznań ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 65 Lat/Lng : 52.4083 / 16.9342 | Poznań (;. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. ; ; known also by other historical names) is a city on the Warta River in west-central Poland, in the Greater Poland region. It is best known for its renaissance Old Town and Ostrów Tumski Cathedral (...) |
13 | ![]() | Tricity, Poland ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 99 Lat/Lng : 54.4333 / 18.55 | Tricity, or Tri-City is a metropolitan area in Poland consisting of three cities in Pomerania: Gdańsk, Gdynia and Sopot, as well as minor towns in their vicinity. They are situated adjacent to one other, in a row on the coast of Gdańsk Bay, Baltic Sea, in Pomerelia (Pomeranian Voivodeship), northern (...) |
14 | ![]() | Gdańsk ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 54.352 / 18.6466 | Gdańsk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast. It is the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship and the capital of Kashubia, Poland's principal seaport and the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area (...) |
15 | ![]() | Gdynia ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 54.5173 / 18.5399 | Gdynia is a city in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of Poland and a seaport of Gdańsk Bay on the south coast of the Baltic Sea. Located in Kashubia in Eastern Pomerania, Gdynia is part of a conurbation with the spa town of Sopot, the city of Gdańsk and suburban communities, which together form a (...) |
16 | ![]() | Rzeszów ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 201 Lat/Lng : 50.0336 / 22.0047 | Rzeszów Cf. Pięć wieków miasta Rzeszowa XIV-XVIII, Collective of authors, (ed.) on behalf of the Polskie Towarzystwo Historyczne, Rzeszów department, Warsaw: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1958, p. 18; and Władysław Makarski, Roczniki humanistyczne, Towarzystwo Naukowe Katolickiego Uniwersytetu (...) |
17 | ![]() | Kraków ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 219 Lat/Lng : 50.0617 / 19.9372 | Kraków , also spelled Cracow or Krakow, is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596 and has traditionally been one of the leading (...) |
18 | ![]() | Szczecin ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 53.4247 / 14.5553 | Szczecin (; , ; known also by other alternative names) is the capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the German border, it is a major seaport and Poland's seventh-largest city. As of June 2018, the population was 403,274 (...) |
19 | ![]() | Gliwice ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 233 Lat/Lng : 50.2833 / 18.6667 | Gliwice is a city in Upper Silesia, in southern Poland. The city is located in the Silesian Highlands, on the Kłodnica river (a tributary of the Oder). It lies approximately 25 km West from Katowice, regional capital of the Silesian Voivodeship (...) |
20 | Józefów ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 95 Lat/Lng : 52.1356 / 21.2369 | Józefów is a town in east-central Poland, located in Masovian Voivodeship, in Otwock County. It lies about southeast of Warsaw city center and is a part of that city's metropolitan area. Located on a picturesque confluence of Vistula and Świder rivers, it is home to one landscape reserve and three (...) | |
21 | Sulejówek ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 105 Lat/Lng : 52.2442 / 21.28 | Sulejówek is a town in Poland, about 18 km east of Warsaw city centre and part of its metropolitan area. It is located in Masovian Voivodeship, in Mińsk County. Its population numbers 19323 (2011). The town is well known in Poland as the place where Józef Piłsudski lived in the years between 1923 (...) | |
22 | Ruda Śląska ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 279 Lat/Lng : 50.2762 / 18.8645 | Ruda Śląska is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. It is a district in the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union, a metropolis with a population of 2 million. It is located in the Silesian Highlands, on the Kłodnica river (tributary of the Oder) (...) | |
23 | Praga-Północ ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 85 Lat/Lng : 52.2633 / 21.0283 | Praga-North is a district in Warsaw located in the central part of the city. (...) | |
24 | Łódź Widzew railway station ![]() FeatureType : railwaystation Elevation : 204 Lat/Lng : 51.7592 / 19.4225 | Łódź Widzew is a major railway station located in Widzew, an eastern district of the central Polish city of Łódź. It is located on a number of important railway lines including the Łódź Fabryczna to Koluszki and Warsaw railway line, the Widzew to Kutno railway line, and the Łódź Kaliska to Warsaw (...) | |
25 | Jaworzno ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 267 Lat/Lng : 50.1833 / 19.2667 | Jaworzno is a city in southern Poland, near Katowice. It lies in the Silesian Highlands, on the Przemsza river (a tributary of the Vistula). Jaworzno belongs to the historic province of Lesser Poland. The city is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship since its formation in 1999, previously (1975 - (...) | |
26 | ![]() | St. Mary's Church, Gdańsk ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 54.3667 / 18.6333 | St. Mary's Church (Polish: Bazylika Mariacka), or formally the Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Polish: Bazylika Mariacka Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny w Gdańsku), is a Roman Catholic church in Gdańsk, Poland (...) |
27 | Wodzisław Śląski ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 244 Lat/Lng : 50.0 / 18.45 | Wodzisław Śląski is a town in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland with 50,493 inhabitants (2007). It is the seat of Wodzisław County. It was previously in Katowice Voivodeship (1975–1998); close to the border with the Czech Republic, about south of Warsaw and about west of Kraków, on the southern (...) | |
28 | Chorzów ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 293 Lat/Lng : 50.3 / 18.95 | Chorzów is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. Chorzów is one of the central districts of the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union - a metropolis with a population of 2 million. It is located in the Silesian Highlands, on the Rawa River (a tributary of the Vistula) (...) | |
29 | Sosnowiec ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 257 Lat/Lng : 50.2833 / 19.1333 | Sosnowiec (pronounced) is an industrial city county in the Dąbrowa Basin (Zagłębie Dąbrowskie) of southern Poland, which is also part of the Silesian Metropolis municipal association.—— Located in the eastern part of the Upper Silesian Industrial Region, Sosnowiec is one of the cities of the (...) | |
30 | Zabrze ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 239 Lat/Lng : 50.3064 / 18.7694 | Zabrze (; ; German: 1915–1945: Hindenburg O.S., full form: Hindenburg in Oberschlesien, 1905–1915: Zabrze, Silesian: Zobrze) is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. The west district of the Silesian Metropolis, a metropolis with a population of around 2 million (...) | |
31 | Volodymyr-Volynskyi ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 192 Lat/Lng : 50.8481 / 24.3222 | Volodymyr-Volynskyi is a small city located in Volyn Oblast, in north-western Ukraine. Serving as the administrative centre of the Volodymyr-Volynskyi Raion, the city itself is also designated as a separate municipality within the oblast as the city of regional significance (...) | |
32 | Sławków ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 313 Lat/Lng : 50.2981 / 19.3883 | Sławków is a town in Zagłębie Dąbrowskie (part of historic province of Lesser Poland), near Katowice. It borders the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union - a metropolis with a population of around 2 million. Sławków is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship, previously it was in Katowice Voivodeship (...) | |
33 | Swarzędz ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 89 Lat/Lng : 52.4083 / 17.0714 | Swarzędz (German: Schwersenz) is a town (miasto) in central Poland of 29,766 inhabitants and a mixed urban-rural commune (gmina miejsko-wiejska) of 40,166 inhabitants (2006 estimates). It is situated in the Poznań metropolitan area, in the Greater Poland Voivodeship (since 1999), having previously (...) | |
34 | Bielsko-Biała ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 328 Lat/Lng : 49.8225 / 19.0444 | Bielsko-Biała is a city in Southern Poland with the population of approximately 171 505 (in 2018) . The city is a centre of the 325,000-large and is a major industrial (particularly automotive), transport and tourism hub (...) | |
35 | Tarnowskie Góry ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 295 Lat/Lng : 50.45 / 18.8667 | Tarnowskie Góry (German: Tarnowitz, established in 1526;) is a town in Silesia (southern Poland), located in the Silesian Highlands near Katowice. On the south it borders the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union – megalopolis, greater Silesian metropolitan area populated by about 5,294,000 people (...) | |
36 | Będzin ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 255 Lat/Lng : 50.3167 / 19.1333 | Będzin (also Bendzin; , Bendin) is a city in Zagłębie Dąbrowskie, southern Poland. It lies in the Silesian Highlands, on the Czarna Przemsza river (a tributary of the Vistula). Even though part of Silesian Voivodeship, Będzin belongs to historic Lesser Poland, and it is one of the oldest towns of (...) | |
37 | Kraków Voivodeship ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 211 Lat/Lng : 50.0589 / 19.9411 | Kraków Voivodeship, refers to several historical Voivodeships of Poland in the surrounding regions, with the city of Kraków as its capital. (...) | |
38 | Imielin ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 256 Lat/Lng : 50.1333 / 19.1833 | Imielin is a small town in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. Borders on the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union - metropolis with the population of 2 millions. Located in the Silesian Highlands. (...) | |
39 | Tarnów ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 227 Lat/Lng : 50.0126 / 20.9883 | Tarnów (; is a city in southeastern Poland with 115,341 inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of 269,000 inhabitants. The city is situated in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship since 1999. From 1975 to 1998, it was the capital of the Tarnów Voivodeship (...) | |
40 | Wieliczka Salt Mine ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 267 Lat/Lng : 49.9792 / 20.0639 | The Wieliczka Salt Mine , located in the town of Wieliczka in southern Poland, lies within the Kraków metropolitan area. Opened in the 13th century, the mine produced table salt continuously until 2007, as one of the world's oldest salt mines in operation (...) | |
41 | Zagreb ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 134 Lat/Lng : 45.8131 / 15.9773 | Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of Croatia. It is located in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. The estimated population of the city in 2018 is 810,003 (...) | |
42 | Bydgoszcz ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 68 Lat/Lng : 53.1167 / 18.0 | Bydgoszcz is a city in northern Poland, on the Brda and Vistula rivers. With a city population of 358,614 (June 2014), and an urban agglomeration with more than 470,000 inhabitants, Bydgoszcz is the eighth-largest city in Poland (...) | |
43 | Wojkowice ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 289 Lat/Lng : 50.3647 / 19.0367 | Wojkowice is a small town in województwo śląskie, located in so-called Zagłębie Dąbrowskie in southern Poland, near Katowice. Wojkowice is located in the Silesian Highlands, on the Brynica river (tributary of the Vistula), and historically belongs to Lesser Poland (...) | |
44 | Chełmża ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 93 Lat/Lng : 53.1864 / 18.6142 | Chełmża (earlier Culmsee), is a town in Toruń County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. It is located at around . (...) | |
45 | Wołyń Voivodeship (1921–1939) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 186 Lat/Lng : 50.7448 / 25.3202 | Wołyń Voivodeship or Volhynian Voivodeship was an administrative region of interwar Poland (1918–1939) with an area of 35,754 km², 22 cities, and provincial capital in Łuck. The voivodeship was divided into 11 districts (powiaty). The area comprised part of the historical region of Volhynia (...) | |
46 | Opera Nova Bydgoszcz ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 53.1244 / 17.9975 | The Opera Nova is an opera house located in Bydgoszcz and established in 1956, which also plays the role of a musical theater. It is one of the 10 opera houses in Poland and the only one of this size in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship (...) | |
47 | National road 50 (Poland) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 89 Lat/Lng : 52.0311 / 21.3197 | National road 50 is a route belonging to the Polish national road network. The highway forms a part of bypass of Warsaw metropolitan area, running from 29 to 84 km away from centre of Warsaw. The route has two bridges over Vistula, one in Wyszogród and another in Góra Kalwaria (...) | |
48 | Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva Synagogue ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 189 Lat/Lng : 51.2577 / 22.5728 | The Synagogue in Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva is a synagogue located in Lublin, Poland, in the building of Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva, on Lubartowska 85 (originally 57) Street. (...) | |