Jaworzno
Jaworzno is a city county in southern Poland in the Silesian Voivodeship, near Katowice. It lies in the Silesian Highlands, on the Przemsza river. Jaworzno belongs to Lesser Poland and, despite belonging to the Silesian Voivodeship since 1999, Jaworzno is not part of Silesia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Saint Adalbert of Prague and Saint Catherine of Alexandria collegiate church in Jaworzno and Memorial to the prisoners of the Central Labour Camp Jaworzno.
Saint Adalbert of Prague and Saint Catherine of Alexandria collegiate church in Jaworzno
Church
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Memorial to the prisoners of the Central Labour Camp Jaworzno
Monument
The Jaworzno concentration camp was a concentration camp in the Second World War, German-occupied Poland and later in Communist Poland. It was first established by the Nazis in 1943 during WWII and was later used by the Soviet NKVD in 1945 to 1956.
Jaworzno Power Station
Industrial building
The Jaworzno Power Station is a complex of coal-fired thermal power stations at Jaworzno, Poland. The largest plant of the Jaworzno power plant complex is called Jaworzno III.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dziećkowice and Dąbrowa Narodowa.
Dziećkowice
Suburb
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Dziećkowice is a dzielnica of Mysłowice, Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland. It was previously an independent village, but was absorbed first by Tychy, and later in 1976 by Mysłowice. It has an area of 13.04 km2 and in 2012 had a population of 1,461.
Szczakowa
Suburb
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Szczakowa is a district of the Polish city of Jaworzno. It is located in the northern part of the city and is one of the most important rail hubs of the area.
Jaworzno
- Categories: city with powiat rights in Poland and locality
- Location: Jaworzno, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
50.2034° or 50° 12′ 12″ northLongitude
19.2722° or 19° 16′ 20″ eastPopulation
89,000Elevation
318 metres (1,043 feet)United Nations Location Code
PL JAWOpen location code
9F2X673C+9VOpenStreetMap ID
node 31901916OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Jaworzno” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Jaworzno”
- Arabic: “يافورجنو”
- Aragonese: “Jaworzno”
- Armenian: “Յավոժնո”
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- Azerbaijani: “Yavojno”
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- Bavarian: “Jaworzno”
- Belarusian: “Явожна”
- Bengali: “জউরজনো”
- Breton: “Jaworzno”
- Bulgarian: “Jaworzno”
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- Catalan: “Jaworzno”
- Cebuano: “Jaworzno (kapital sa powiat)”
- Cebuano: “Jaworzno”
- Chechen: “Явожно”
- Chinese: “Jaworzno”
- Chinese: “亚沃日诺”
- Chinese: “亞沃日諾”
- Chinese: “亞禾日諾”
- Corsican: “Jaworzno”
- Crimean Tatar: “Âvojna”
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- German: “Arnshalde”
- German: “Jaworzno”
- Greek: “Γιαβόζνο”
- Gujarati: “જાવોર્ઝેનો”
- Hakka Chinese: “Jaworzno”
- Hebrew: “יאבוז’נו”
- Hindi: “जवर्ज़नों”
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- Kashubian: “Jaworzno”
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- Korean: “야보주노”
- Latvian: “Javožna”
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- Latvian: “Jaworzno”
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- Macedonian: “Јавожно”
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- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jaworzno”
- Norwegian: “Jaworzno”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Jaworzno”
- Ossetian: “Явожно”
- Persian: “یاوژنو”
- Persian: “یاووژنو”
- Picard: “Jaworzno”
- Piemontese: “Jaworzno”
- Polish: “Jaworzno”
- Polish: “Powiat Jaworzno”
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- Russian: “Явожно”
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- Serbian: “Jaworzno”
- Serbian: “Јавожно”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Jaworzno”
- Sicilian: “Jaworzno”
- Silesian: “Jawořno”
- Silesian: “Jaworzno”
- Sinhala: “ජාවෝස්නෝ”
- Slovak: “Jaworzno”
- Slovak: “Powiat Jaworzno”
- Slovenian: “Javorzno”
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- Spanish: “Jaworzno”
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- Swiss German: “Jaworzno”
- Tamil: “ஜவாரிஜ்னோ”
- Tatar: “Явожно”
- Telugu: “జవర్జనో”
- Thai: “ยาวอซโน”
- Turkish: “Jaworzno ilçesi”
- Turkish: “Jaworzno İlçesi”
- Turkish: “Jaworzno”
- Ukrainian: “Явожно”
- Upper Sorbian: “Jaworzno”
- Urdu: “جاوورزنو”
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- Waray (Philippines): “Jaworzno”
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- Wolof: “Jaworzno”
- Wu Chinese: “亚沃日诺”
- Yue Chinese: “亞禾日諾”
- Zulu: “Jaworzno”
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