Polanka Wielka
Polanka Wielka is a village in Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Polanka Wielka. It lies approximately 10 kilometres south-east of Oświęcim and 46 km west of the regional capital Kraków.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Saint Bartholomew church in Poręba Wielka.
Saint Bartholomew church in Poręba Wielka
Church
Saint Bartholomew church in Poręba Wielka is situated 3 km northwest of Polanka Wielka.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Łazy and Stawy Monowskie.
Łazy
Village
Photo: D T G, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Łazy is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Oświęcim, within Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. Łazy is situated 3½ km west of Polanka Wielka.
Stawy Monowskie
Village
Stawy Monowskie is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Oświęcim, within Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. Stawy Monowskie is situated 5 km northeast of Polanka Wielka.
Auschwitz III (Monowitz)
Locality
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Monowitz was a Nazi concentration camp and labor camp run by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland from 1942 to 1945, during World War II and the Holocaust. For most of its existence, Monowitz was a subcamp of the Auschwitz concentration camp; from November 1943 it and other Nazi subcamps in the area were jointly known as "Auschwitz III-subcamps". Auschwitz III (Monowitz) is situated 5 km north of Polanka Wielka.
Polanka Wielka
- Type: Village with 3,800 residents
- Description: village in Poland
- Categories: village of Poland and locality
- Location: Gmina Polanka Wielka, Oświęcim County, Małopolskie, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
49.98383° or 49° 59′ 2″ northLongitude
19.30742° or 19° 18′ 27″ eastPopulation
3,800Elevation
249 metres (817 feet)Open location code
8FXXX8M4+GXOpenStreetMap ID
node 599994175OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3088493Wikidata ID
Q7208969
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Polanka Wielka” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Polanka Wielka”
- Cebuano: “Polanka Wielka”
- Chechen: “Полянка-Велика”
- Chinese: “Polanka Wielka”
- Czech: “Polanka Wielka”
- Dutch: “Polanka Wielka”
- French: “Polanka Wielka”
- German: “Polanka Wielka”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Polanka Wielka”
- Polish: “Polanka Wielka”
- Russian: “Полянка-Велька”
- Swedish: “Polanka Wielka”
- Tatar: “Полянка-Велика”
- Turkish: “Polanka Wielka”
- Ukrainian: “Полянка-Велика”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include URZĄD GMINY POLANKA WIELKA and Biblioteka Publiczna.
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