Żory
Żory is a town and city county in the Silesian Voivodeship, located in southern Poland with 62,848 inhabitants. It is located in the historic Upper Silesia region about 30 kilometres southwest of Katowice.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 61,800 residents
- Description: city with powiat rights of Poland
- Also known as: “Sohrau”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Museum of Fire and Plebania Parafii Ewangelicko-Augsburska w Żorach z 1907 roku.
Plebania Parafii Ewangelicko-Augsburska w Żorach z 1907 roku
Historic building
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Plebania Parafii Ewangelicko-Augsburska w Żorach z 1907 roku is a historic building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rudziczka and Rogoźna.
Rudziczka
Village
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Rudziczka is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Suszec, within Pszczyna County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 4 km north-west of Suszec, 16 km north-west of Pszczyna, and 28 km south-west of the regional capital Katowice.
Rogoźna
Suburb
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Rogoźna is a district in the south-west of Żory, Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland, built near the provincinal road no. 932…
Rój
Suburb
Rój is a district in southwestern Żory, Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland. The medieval name Ray, meaning "paradise," was later pronounced by locals as Roj. This pronunciation subsequently transformed into Rój, which literally means "swarming ".
Żory
- Categories: city with powiat rights in Poland and locality
- Location: Żory, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
50.0455° or 50° 2′ 44″ northLongitude
18.6943° or 18° 41′ 40″ eastPopulation
61,800Elevation
251 metres (823 feet)United Nations Location Code
PL ZOYOpen location code
9F2W2MWV+5POpenStreetMap ID
node 1243678001OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Żory” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Żory”
- Basque: “Żory”
- Belarusian: “Жоры”
- Bulgarian: “Жори”
- Catalan: “Żory”
- Cebuano: “Żory (kapital sa powiat)”
- Cebuano: “Żory”
- Chechen: “Жоры”
- Chinese: “Żory”
- Chinese: “若雷”
- Czech: “Žárov”
- Czech: “Žáry”
- Czech: “Žory”
- Czech: “Żory”
- Danish: “Żory”
- Dutch: “Sohrau”
- Dutch: “Zory”
- Dutch: “Żory”
- Egyptian Arabic: “زورى”
- Esperanto: “Sohrau”
- Esperanto: “Żory”
- Estonian: “Żory”
- French: “Sohrau”
- French: “Zory”
- French: “Żory”
- Galician: “Żory”
- German: “Sohrau”
- German: “Zory”
- German: “Żory”
- Greek: “Ζόρι”
- Hakka Chinese: “Żory”
- Hebrew: “צורי”
- Hungarian: “Żory”
- Indonesian: “Zory”
- Indonesian: “Żory”
- Irish: “Żory”
- Italian: “Sohrau”
- Italian: “Zory”
- Italian: “Żory”
- Japanese: “ジョルィ”
- Javanese: “Żory”
- Korean: “조리 (도시)”
- Korean: “조리”
- Latvian: “Sohrau”
- Latvian: “Žori”
- Latvian: “Zory”
- Latvian: “Żory”
- Lithuanian: “Žoros”
- Macedonian: “Жори”
- Malay: “Zory”
- Malay: “Żory”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Żory”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Żory”
- Persian: “ژوری”
- Polish: “Zory”
- Polish: “Żory”
- Portuguese: “Sohrau”
- Portuguese: “Żory”
- Quechua: “Żory”
- Romanian: “Zory”
- Romanian: “Żory”
- Russian: “Жоры”
- Serbian: “Жори”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Żory”
- Silesian: “Žory”
- Silesian: “Żory”
- Slovak: “Powiat Żory”
- Slovak: “Żory”
- Slovenian: “Żory”
- South Azerbaijani: “ژوری”
- Spanish: “Sohrau”
- Spanish: “Zory”
- Spanish: “Żory”
- Swedish: “Żory”
- Tatar: “Жоры”
- Thai: “Żory”
- Thai: “ชอรือ”
- Turkish: “Zory ilçesi”
- Turkish: “Zory İlçesi”
- Turkish: “Żory ilçesi”
- Turkish: “Żory İlçesi”
- Turkish: “Żory”
- Ukrainian: “Жори”
- Vietnamese: “Żory”
- Waray (Philippines): “Żory”
- Welsh: “Żory”
- “Sohrau”
- “Żory”
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