Hradec Králové Region
Trutnov District
Pec pod Sněžkou

Sněžka

Sněžka or Śnieżka is a mountain on the border between the and , the most prominent point of the Silesian Ridge in the .
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  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,603 metres
  • Description: highest mountain of the Giant Mountains at the border of the Czech Republic and Poland
  • Also known as: “Snezka”, “Śnieżka”, and “Śnieżka / Sněžka”
  • Wheelchair access: no

Places of Interest

Highlights include St. Lawrence’s Chapel, Śnieżka and Česká poštovna na Sněžce.

Church
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St. Lawrence's Chapel – a Roman Catholic chapel located on the peak of Śnieżka; in . The chapel is located in south-west of , in the eastern Karkonosze Mountains, on the peak of Śnieżka – the highest peak of the Karkonosze Mountains, located around 5.3 kilometres west of the centre of .

Post office
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is a post office.

Tower
Photo: Lovecz, Public domain.
The - an institution of the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management, located on Śnieżka - the highest summit of the and the whole , at an altitude of 1602 m.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kocioł Łomniczki and Obří důl.

Locality
Photo: Jarosław Szczepaniak, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a locality.

Locality
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is a valley in the in the of the Czech Republic. The valley lies in the municipal territory of and within the Krkonoše National Park.

Locality
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The is a subalpine plateau in the of and the . The plateau is situated west from the peak of Sněžka, between the mountains of and Sněžka at 1,390–1,446 m above sea level.

Sněžka

Latitude
50.73603° or 50° 44′ 10″ north
Longitude
15.73961° or 15° 44′ 23″ east
Elevation
1,603 metres (5,259 feet)
Open location code
9F2QPPPQ+CR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1850303773
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­no
Geo­Names ID
3085294
Wiki­data ID
Q617511
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Sněžka” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سنيجكا”
  • Armenian: “Սնեժկա”
  • Azerbaijani: “Snejka dağı”
  • Basque: “Sněžka”
  • Belarusian: “Снежка”
  • Belarusian: “Сьнежка”
  • Bosnian: “Sněžka”
  • Breton: “Sněžka”
  • Bulgarian: “Снежка”
  • Catalan: “Sněžka”
  • Cebuano: “Sněžka”
  • Cebuano: “Śnieżka”
  • Chinese: “斯涅日卡山”
  • Croatian: “Sněžka”
  • Czech: “Sněžka”
  • Danish: “Sněžka”
  • Dutch: “Sneeuwkop”
  • Dutch: “Sněžka”
  • Dutch: “Śnieżka”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل سنيجكا”
  • Esperanto: “Sněžka”
  • Estonian: “Sněžka”
  • Finnish: “Sněžka”
  • French: “Sniejka”
  • German: “Riesenkoppe”
  • German: “Schneekoppe”
  • Gilaki: “سنيئژکا”
  • Greek: “Σνέζκα”
  • Greek: “Σνέσκα”
  • Greek: “Σνιέζκα”
  • Greek: “Σνιέσκα”
  • Greek: “Σνίκοπε”
  • Hebrew: “סנז’קה”
  • Hungarian: “Sněžka”
  • Indonesian: “Sněžka”
  • Italian: “Sněžka”
  • Japanese: “シニェシュカ山”
  • Japanese: “スニェシュカ山”
  • Korean: “슈네코페 산”
  • Korean: “스네슈카산”
  • Korean: “시니에슈카 산”
  • Ladin: “Sněžka”
  • Latin: “Gigantaeus mons”
  • Latvian: “Sņežka”
  • Lithuanian: “Snežka”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Sněžka”
  • Macedonian: “Сњежка”
  • Macedonian: “Шњежка”
  • Northern Frisian: “Snätoop”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sněžka/Śnieżka”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sněžka”
  • Norwegian: “Sněžka-Śnieżka”
  • Norwegian: “Sněžka/Śnieżka”
  • Persian: “اسنیه‌ژکا”
  • Persian: “سنژکا”
  • Polish: “Śnieżka”
  • Portuguese: “Sněžka”
  • Romanian: “Sněžka”
  • Russian: “Снежка”
  • Serbian: “Снежка”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sněžka”
  • Silesian: “Śńyżka”
  • Slovak: “Sněžka”
  • Slovenian: “Sněžka”
  • Spanish: “Schneekoppe”
  • Spanish: “Sněžka”
  • Spanish: “Śnieżka”
  • Swedish: “Sněžka”
  • Turkish: “Sněžka Dağı”
  • Turkish: “Śnieżka”
  • Ukrainian: “Снєжка”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Sněžka”
  • Urdu: “سنیژکا”
  • Venetian: “Sněžka”
  • Western Frisian: “Sněžka”
  • Western Panjabi: “سنزکا”
  • “Sněžka”
  • “Śnieżka”

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