Silesia

Silesia is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within , with small parts in the and . Its area is approximately 40,000 km2, and the population is estimated at 8,000,000.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Train station in Wołczyn and St. Michael’s Church, Gierałcice.

Railway station
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is a railway station.

Church
Photo: SMilejski, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St. Michael's Church is a historic, wooden chapel of ease in , in . The church belongs to the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland.

Church
Photo: Bogdan Starościak, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wołczyn and Gierałcice.

Town
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is a town in , , southern , with 5,907 inhabitants as of 2019. According to 2011 data, it covers 7.47 square kilometres, and is the seat of . It is located within the historic region of Lower Silesia.

Village
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is a in the administrative district of , within , , in south-western Poland. 20 Polish citizens were murdered by Nazi Germany in the village during World War II.

Village
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is a in the administrative district of , within , , in south-western Poland.

Silesia

Latitude
51° north
Longitude
18° east
Population
8,000,000
Elevation
172 metres (564 feet)
Open location code
9F3W2222+22
Geo­Names ID
3066138
Wiki­data ID
Q81720
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Silesia” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Silesië”
  • Arabic: “سيلسيا”
  • Arabic: “سيليزيا”
  • Arabic: “منطقة سيليزيا”
  • Armenian: “Սիլեզիա”
  • Asturian: “Silesia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sileziya”
  • Basque: “Silesia”
  • Belarusian: “Сілезія”
  • Belarusian: “Сылезія”
  • Bosnian: “Šleska”
  • Breton: “Silezia”
  • Bulgarian: “Силезия”
  • Catalan: “Silèsia”
  • Chinese: “Silesia”
  • Chinese: “西利西亞”
  • Chinese: “西里西亚”
  • Chinese: “西里西亞”
  • Croatian: “Šleska”
  • Croatian: “Šlezija”
  • Czech: “Slezsko”
  • Danish: “Schlesien”
  • Danish: “Slask”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Silezya”
  • Dutch: “Schlesien”
  • Dutch: “Silezie”
  • Dutch: “Silezië”
  • Dutch: “Sileziers”
  • Dutch: “Sileziërs”
  • Esperanto: “Silezio”
  • Estonian: “Sileesia”
  • Finnish: “Sleesia”
  • Finnish: “Šleesia”
  • French: “Schlesien”
  • French: “Silesia”
  • French: “Silesie”
  • French: “Silésie”
  • French: “Silésiens”
  • Friulian: “Slesie”
  • Galician: “Silesia”
  • Georgian: “სილეზია”
  • Georgian: “შლეზია”
  • German: “Schläsing”
  • German: “Schlesien”
  • Greek: “Σηλεσία”
  • Greek: “Σιλεσία”
  • Guarani: “Silésia”
  • Hebrew: “שלזיה”
  • Hungarian: “Szilézia”
  • Icelandic: “Slesía”
  • Ido: “Silezia”
  • Indonesian: “Silesia”
  • Interlingua: “Silesia”
  • Irish: “An tSiléis”
  • Italian: “Silesia”
  • Italian: “Silezija”
  • Italian: “Slesia”
  • Japanese: “シュレージェン”
  • Japanese: “シュレージエン”
  • Japanese: “シュレジア”
  • Japanese: “シュレジェン”
  • Japanese: “シュレジエン”
  • Japanese: “シレジア”
  • Japanese: “シロンスク”
  • Japanese: “スレスコ”
  • Javanese: “Silesia”
  • Kirghiz: “Силесия”
  • Korean: “슐레지엔”
  • Korean: “슐롱스크”
  • Korean: “슬레스코”
  • Korean: “실레시아”
  • Korean: “실레지아”
  • Korean: “실롱스크”
  • Latin: “Silesia”
  • Latvian: “Silēzija”
  • Lithuanian: “Silezij”
  • Lithuanian: “Silezija”
  • Lithuanian: “Šlionskas”
  • Lombard: “Slesia”
  • Lower Silesian: “Schläsing”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Šlazyńska”
  • Luxembourgish: “Schlesien”
  • Macedonian: “Шлезија”
  • Macedonian: “Шлеска”
  • Malagasy: “Silesia”
  • Mazanderani: “سیلزی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Silesia”
  • Mingrelian: “სილეზია”
  • Moksha: “Силезие”
  • Moksha: “Силезия”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Schlesiar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Schlesien”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Schlesier”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Silesia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Slask”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Śląsk”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Šlezsko”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Schlesien”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Silesia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Śląsk”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Slezsko”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Szilézia”
  • Norwegian: “Schlesien”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Silèsia”
  • Ossetian: “Силези”
  • Persian: “سیلزی”
  • Persian: “سیلسی”
  • Persian: “سیلیزیا”
  • Persian: “سیلیسیا”
  • Polish: “Schlesien”
  • Polish: “Silesia”
  • Polish: “Śląsk”
  • Polish: “Slezsko”
  • Polish: “Ślůnsk”
  • Portuguese: “Silesia”
  • Portuguese: “Silésia”
  • Portuguese: “Śląsk”
  • Romanian: “Schlesien”
  • Romanian: “Silezia”
  • Russian: “Силезия”
  • Santali: “ᱥᱤᱞᱮᱥᱤᱭᱟ”
  • Serbian: “Горња Шлезија”
  • Serbian: “Доња Шлезија”
  • Serbian: “Доња Шлеска”
  • Serbian: “Шлезија”
  • Serbian: “Шлеска”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Šleska”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Šlezija”
  • Silesian: “Ślonsk”
  • Silesian: “Ślōnsk”
  • Silesian: “Ślůnsk”
  • Slovak: “Sliezsko”
  • Slovenian: “Šlezija”
  • Spanish: “Schlesien”
  • Spanish: “Silesia”
  • Spanish: “Slask”
  • Spanish: “Sląsk”
  • Spanish: “Ślask”
  • Spanish: “Śląsk”
  • Spanish: “Śląskie”
  • Spanish: “Slezko”
  • Swedish: “Schlesien”
  • Swedish: “Silesia”
  • Swedish: “Silesien”
  • Swedish: “Śląsk”
  • Tagalog: “Silesia”
  • Tagalog: “Silesya”
  • Tamil: “சைலீசியா”
  • Tamil: “சைலீஷியா”
  • Tamil: “சைலேசியா”
  • Tatar: “Силезия”
  • Thai: “ไซลีเชีย”
  • Thai: “ไซลีเซีย”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Schlesien”
  • Turkish: “Schlesien”
  • Turkish: “Silezya”
  • Ukrainian: “Силезія”
  • Ukrainian: “Сілезія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Šleska”
  • Urdu: “سیلیزیا”
  • Uzbek: “Sileziya”
  • Venetian: “Slesia”
  • Vietnamese: “Schlesien”
  • Vietnamese: “Silesia”
  • Vietnamese: “Śląsk”
  • Vietnamese: “Slezsko”
  • Vietnamese: “Xi-lê-di”
  • Vietnamese: “Xilêdi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Silesia”
  • Welsh: “Silesia”
  • Western Frisian: “Sileesje”
  • Western Frisian: “Sileezje”
  • Wu Chinese: “西里西亚”
  • Yiddish: “שלעזיע”

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