Olkusz
Olkusz is a town in southern Poland with 36,607 inhabitants. It is the capital of Olkusz County in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship. Founded in the Middle Ages, Olkusz is a former royal town of Poland, and features a medieval urban layout with defensive walls, a preserved market square, and a Gothic basilica.
- Town with about 33,500 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 370 metres (1,200 feet)
- …is also known as “Ol’kush”
- Description: city of Poland
Places of Interest
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Olkusz train station
Olkusz train station is a railway station.
Villages in the Area
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Olkusz
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Latitude
50.27882° or 50° 16′ 44″ north
Longitude
19.55963° or 19° 33′ 35″ east
UN/LOCODE
PL OKZ
Open location code
9F2X7HH5+GV
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place = town
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Olkusz” goes by many names.
أولكوسArabic
OlkuszAragonese
ՕլկուշArmenian
OlkuszAsturian
ВолькушBelarusian
ОлькушBelarusian
ОлкушBulgarian
OlkuszCebuano
Olkusz (kapital sa powiat)Cebuano
ОлькушChechen
奥尔库什Chinese
奧爾庫什Chinese
OlkušCzech
OlkuszCzech
OlkuszDanish
OlkuszDutch
اولكوزEgyptian Arabic
OlkuszEsperanto
OlkuszEstonian
OlkuszFinnish
ΌλκουςGreek
אולקושHebrew
OlkuszIrish
OlkuszItalian
オルクシュJapanese
OlkuszJavanese
OlkuszKashubian
IlcusLatin
OlkušaLatvian
OlkušasLithuanian
OlkuszMalay
OlkuszNorwegian
OlkuszNorwegian Bokmål
اولکوشPersian
OlkuszPolish
OlkuszRomanian
ОлькушRussian
ОлкушSerbian
OlkuszSilesian
OlkuszSlovak
OlkuszSwedish
ОлькушTatar
OlkuszTurkish
ОлькушUkrainian
اولکوشUrdu
OlkuszVietnamese
OlkuszWaray (Philippines)
עלקושYiddish
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