Karczew
Karczew is a town in Otwock County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It is the seat of the urban-rural administrative district of Gmina Karczew, with 10,271 inhabitants.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 9,570 residents
- Description: town of Poland
- Also known as: “Karceva” and “Karčeva”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Saint Vitus church in Karczew and Liceum Ogólnokształcące nr I im. Konstantego Ildefonsa Gałczyńskiego.
Liceum Ogólnokształcące nr I im. Konstantego Ildefonsa Gałczyńskiego
Historic building
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Liceum Ogólnokształcące nr I im. Konstantego Ildefonsa Gałczyńskiego is a historic building, which is situated 2½ km northeast of Karczew.
Nature reserve Na Torfach
Nature reserve
Photo: Wojsyl, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nature reserve Na Torfach is situated 2½ km east of Karczew.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Otwock Mały and Otwock.
Otwock Mały
Village
Otwock Mały is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Karczew, within Otwock County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately 4 km south of Karczew, 8 km south of Otwock, and 26 km south-east of Warsaw.
Otwock
Town
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Otwock is a city in the Masovian Voivodeship in east-central Poland, some 23 kilometres south-east of Warsaw, with 43,895 inhabitants. Otwock is part of the Warsaw metropolitan area. Otwock is situated 3 km north of Karczew.
Otwock Wielki
Village
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Otwock Wielki is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Karczew, within Otwock County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately 5 km south of Karczew, 8 km south of Otwock, and 26 km south-east of Warsaw. Otwock Wielki is situated 3 km south of Karczew.
Karczew
- Categories: shtetl, city, and locality
- Location: Gmina Karczew, Otwock County, Mazowieckie, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
52.07828° or 52° 4′ 42″ northLongitude
21.25081° or 21° 15′ 3″ eastPopulation
9,570Elevation
90 metres (295 feet)United Nations Location Code
PL KCWOpen location code
9G4337H2+88OpenStreetMap ID
node 31696813OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Yiddish—“Karczew” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Karczew”
- Belarusian: “Карчаў”
- Cebuano: “Karczew”
- Chechen: “Карчев”
- Chinese: “卡尔切夫”
- Chinese: “卡爾切夫”
- Czech: “Karczew”
- Danish: “Karczew”
- Dutch: “Karczew”
- Esperanto: “Karczew”
- Esperanto: “Komunumo Karczew”
- Estonian: “Karczew”
- French: “Karczew”
- German: “Karczew”
- Greek: “Κάρτσεφ”
- Hebrew: “קארצ’ב”
- Hebrew: “קארצב”
- Irish: “Karczew”
- Javanese: “Karczew”
- Latvian: “Karceva”
- Latvian: “Karčeva”
- Malay: “Karczew”
- Persian: “کارچف”
- Polish: “Karczew”
- Portuguese: “Karczew”
- Romanian: “Karczew”
- Russian: “Карчев”
- Serbian: “Карчев”
- Silesian: “Karczew”
- Slovak: “Karczew”
- Tatar: “Карчев”
- Turkish: “Karczew”
- Ukrainian: “Карчев”
- Vietnamese: “Karczew”
- Yiddish: “Kartchev”
- Yiddish: “קארטשעוו”
- Yiddish: “קאָרטשעוו”
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