Białowieża Forest
Białowieża Forest is a large forest complex and World Heritage Area straddling the border between Poland and Belarus. It is one of the last and the largest remaining parts of the immense primeval forest that once stretched across the European Plain.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Forest
- Description: old forest in Poland and Belarus
- Also known as: “Bialowieza Forest”, “Bialowieza Primeval Forest”, “Bilovezha Forest”, “Byalovezhska Pushcha”, and “Urwald von Białowieża”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Podolany Nature Reserve and Reconstructed Peron ‘Bialowieza Palace.
Reconstructed Peron ‘Bialowieza Palace
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Reconstructed Peron ‘Bialowieza Palace is situated 4 km north of Białowieża Forest.
August III the Saxon obelisk in Białowieża
Memorial
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August III the Saxon obelisk in Białowieża is a memorial, which is situated 4 km north of Białowieża Forest.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Białowieża National Park and Grudki.
Białowieża National Park
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The Białowieża Forest and the Białowieża National Park is in Podlaskie Voivodship in Poland and extends across the border into Belarus. The Polish part was inscribed into the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1979; the Belarussian part was inscribed in 1992.
Grudki
Village
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Grudki is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Białowieża, within Hajnówka County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, close to the border with Belarus.
Białowieża
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Białowieża is a small village in the Podlaskie Voivodship in eastern Poland, the centre of the eponymous gmina. It is on the edge of the Białowieża Forest and Białowieża National Park.
Białowieża Forest
- Categories: old-growth forest, nature reserve, and biosphere reserve
- Location: Belarus, Eastern Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Białowieża Forest” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيلوفيسكايا بوشاشا”
- Arabic: “غابة بياوفيجا”
- Arabic: “غابة بيلافيجكا”
- Armenian: “Բելովեժյան թավուտ”
- Balinese: “Wana Białowieża”
- Bashkir: “Беловежье шырлығы”
- Basque: “Białowieża basoa”
- Belarusian: “Белавежская пушча”
- Belarusian: “Белавеская пушча”
- Breton: “Koadeg Białowieża”
- Bulgarian: “Беловежка гора”
- Burmese: “ယာဝိုယဲဇာသစ်တော”
- Catalan: “Belovezhskaya Pushcha”
- Catalan: “Bosc de Bialowieza”
- Catalan: “bosc de Białowieża”
- Catalan: “Bosc de Białowieża”
- Catalan: “Bosc de Biélaia Vieja”
- Catalan: “Bosc primigeni de Biélaia Vieja”
- Cebuano: “Belovezhskaya Pushcha”
- Chinese: “别洛韦日自然保护区”
- Chinese: “比亚沃维耶扎原始森林”
- Chinese: “比亚沃韦扎森林”
- Chinese: “比亞沃維耶扎原始森林”
- Chinese: “比亞沃維耶森林”
- Chinese: “比亞洛維察原始森林”
- Croatian: “Beloveška šuma”
- Croatian: “Białowieża”
- Croatian: “Bjeloveška šuma”
- Croatian: “Nacionalni park Białowieża”
- Croatian: “Šuma Białowieża”
- Czech: “Bělověžský prales”
- Danish: “Białowieska nationalpark”
- Danish: “Bialowieska Skov”
- Danish: “Białowieska Skov”
- Danish: “Bialowieska skoven”
- Danish: “Białowieska Skoven”
- Danish: “Bialowieska”
- Danish: “Białowieska”
- Danish: “Bialowieza Forest”
- Danish: “Puszcza Bialowieska”
- Danish: “Puszcza Białowieska”
- Dutch: “Belavezjskaja Pusjtsja”
- Dutch: “Belovezhskaya Pushcha”
- Dutch: “Bialowieza bos”
- Dutch: “Bialowiezabos”
- Dutch: “Bos van Bialowieza”
- Dutch: “Bos van Białowieża”
- Dutch: “Woud van Bialowieza”
- Dutch: “Woud van Białowieża”
- Esperanto: “Arbaro de Bialowieza”
- Esperanto: “Arbaro de Białowieża”
- Esperanto: “Praarbaro de Białowieża”
- Estonian: “Białowieża laas”
- Estonian: “Białowieża ürgmets”
- Finnish: “Belavežskaja Puštša”
- Finnish: “Bialowiezan metsä”
- Finnish: “Białowiezan metsä”
- Finnish: “Białowieżan metsä”
- Finnish: “Bielowiezan metsä”
- Finnish: “Biełowiezan metsä”
- French: “forêt de Belovej”
- French: “foret de Bialowieza”
- French: “forêt de Białowieża”
- French: “Forêt de Białowieża”
- Galician: “bosque de Białowieża”
- Galician: “Bosque de Białowieża”
- Galician: “fraga de Białowieża”
- Georgian: “ბელოვეჟის ტევრი”
- German: “Belowescher Heide”
- German: “Bialowieser Heide”
- German: “Białowieża-Urwald”
- German: “Bialowiezer Heide”
- Greek: “Δάσος Μπιαλοβιέζα”
- Hebrew: “ביאלובייסקה”
- Hebrew: “בלובז’סקאיה”
- Hebrew: “בלווז’סקאיה”
- Hebrew: “יער ביאלובייסקה”
- Hungarian: “Białowieża-erdő”
- Indonesian: “Hutan Bialowieza”
- Indonesian: “Hutan Białowieża”
- Italian: “Belavezhskaya Pushcha”
- Italian: “Foresta di Bialowieza”
- Italian: “foresta di Białowieża”
- Italian: “Foresta di Białowieża”
- Japanese: “ビャウォヴィエジャの森”
- Japanese: “ビャウォヴィエジャ森林保護区”
- Japanese: “ベロヴェーシの森”
- Javanese: “Alas Białowieża”
- Kazakh: “Belovej ormanı”
- Kazakh: “Беловеж орманы”
- Kazakh: “بەلوۆەج ورمانى”
- Kirghiz: “Беловежа чер токою”
- Korean: “비아워비에자 숲”
- Latin: “Silva intacta Bialoviesensis”
- Latvian: “Belovežas gārša”
- Lithuanian: “Baltvydžio giria”
- Lithuanian: “Belovėža”
- Lithuanian: “Belovežas”
- Lithuanian: “Belovežo giria”
- Lithuanian: “Belovežo nacionalinis parkas”
- Macedonian: “Бјаловјешка Шума”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Belaveskaja pusjtsja”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Belavezjskaja Pusjtsja”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bialowieza-skogen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Białowieża-skogen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Białowieżaskogen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Puszcza Białowieska”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Belaveskaja pusjtsja”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Belavezjskaja”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bialowieża”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bialowiezaskogen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Białowiezaskogen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Białowieżaskogen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Puszcza Białowieska”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Велавеская пушча”
- Norwegian: “Białowieżaskogen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Seuva de Bialowieza”
- Persian: “جنگل بیاوویسکا”
- Polish: “Puszcza Białowieska”
- Portuguese: “Belovejskaya Pushtcha”
- Portuguese: “Belovezhskaya pushcha”
- Portuguese: “Floresta de Białowieża”
- Portuguese: “Parque nacional bialowieza”
- Portuguese: “Parque Nacional Białowieża”
- Romanian: “Belavežskaja Pušča”
- Romanian: “Pădurea Belaveja”
- Romanian: “Pădurea Bialowieza”
- Romanian: “Pădurea Białowieza”
- Romanian: “Pădurea Białowieża”
- Romanian: “Puszcza Białowieska”
- Romanian: “Белавежская пушча”
- Russian: “Беловежская пуща”
- Russian: “Беловежский национальный парк”
- Russian: “Беловежский”
- Russian: “Белорусский государственный заповедник «Беловежская пуща»”
- Russian: “Государственное заповедно-охотничье хозяйство «Беловежская пуща»”
- Russian: “Государственный национальный парк «Беловежская пуща»”
- Serbian: “Bjalovješka šuma”
- Serbian: “Беловешка шума”
- Serbian: “Бјаловешка шума”
- Serbian: “Бјаловјежа”
- Serbian: “Бјаловјешка шума”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bjelovjeska šuma”
- Slovak: “Belovežský národný park”
- Slovak: “Belovežský park”
- Slovak: “Belovežský prales”
- Slovak: “Białowieski Park Narodowy”
- Slovak: “Bielovežský národný park”
- Slovak: “Bielovežský park”
- Slovak: “Bielovežský prales”
- Slovenian: “Beloveška pušča”
- Spanish: “Belovezhskaya Pushcha”
- Spanish: “Bialowieza”
- Spanish: “Bosque de Belivezhskaya Pushcha”
- Spanish: “Bosque de Belovezhskaya Pushcha”
- Spanish: “Bosque de Bialowieza Belovezhskaya”
- Spanish: “Bosque de Bialowieza”
- Spanish: “Bosque de Bialowieża”
- Spanish: “Bosque de Białowieza”
- Spanish: “Bosque de Białowieża”
- Spanish: “Bosque de Bielowieza Belovezhskaya”
- Swedish: “Belavezja”
- Swedish: “Bialowieza”
- Swedish: “Bialowiezaskogen”
- Swedish: “Białowieżaskogen”
- Tatar: “Беловежская пуща карурманы”
- Turkish: “Białowieża Ormanı”
- Ukrainian: “Біловезька Пуща”
- Uzbek: “Belaya veja pushchasi”
- Vietnamese: “Rừng Białowieża”
- Vietnamese: “Vườn quốc gia Belovezhskaya Pushcha/Rừng Białowieża”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kagurangan Białowieża”
- Wu Chinese: “比亚沃维耶扎原始森林”
- Yue Chinese: “比亞洛維察原始森林”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Krzyże and Podolany.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Góra Batorego and Vodokhranilishche Belovezhskaya Pushcha.
Belarus: Must-Visit Destinations
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