Tatra County
Tatra County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, southern Poland, on the Slovak border. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: powiat with 68,000 residents
- Description: powiat of Poland
- Also known as: “Powiat tatrzanski” and “powiat tatrzański”
Places of Interest
Highlights include The Tatra Museum in Zakopane and Museum of Zakopane Style at Villa Koliba.
The Tatra Museum in Zakopane
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Tatra Museum is a museum of the history, culture, nature and ethnography of the Polish Tatras; its main branch is located in Zakopane, Poland.
Museum of Zakopane Style at Villa Koliba
Museum
Photo: Piotrekwas, CC BY-SA 3.0 pl.
The Museum of Zakopane Style at Villa Koliba is a division of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, and a museum of Zakopane style. The villa was built between 1892 and 1893 in Zakopane style based on a design by Stanisław Witkiewicz.
Villa Atma
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Villa Atma in Zakopane, Poland, is a historic chalet housing the Karol Szymanowski Museum, department of the National Museum in Kraków.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zakopane and Tatra National Park.
Zakopane
Photo: Maxim75, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Zakopane is a large, year-round mountain resort in Małopolskie Province in southern Poland. It's set in the Tatra mountains which form the natural frontier between Poland and Slovakia.
Tatra National Park
Photo: Leszek Leszczynski, CC BY 2.0.
The Tatra Mountains are a mountain range which forms a natural border between Poland and Slovakia, and are the highest mountain range in the Carpathian Mountains.
Kościelisko
Village
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Kościelisko is a village in Tatra County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland, close to the border with Slovakia. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Kościelisko. In 2006 the village had a population of 3,900. Kościelisko is situated 4½ km west of Tatra County.
Tatra County
- Location: Małopolskie, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“Tatra County” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Տատրա կոմսություն”
- Basque: “Tatra barrutia”
- Belarusian: “Татранскі павет”
- Belarusian: “Татшанскі павет”
- Bulgarian: “Татрански окръг”
- Bulgarian: “Татренски окръг”
- Bulgarian: “Татшански окръг”
- Catalan: “Tatra”
- Cebuano: “Powiat tatrzański”
- Chinese: “Tatra Kūn”
- Chinese: “塔特拉縣”
- Czech: “Okres Tatra”
- Czech: “Okres Tatry”
- Dutch: “powiat tatrzański”
- Dutch: “Powiat Tatrzański”
- Dutch: “Tatra”
- Esperanto: “distrikto Tatroj”
- Esperanto: “Distrikto Tatroj”
- Esperanto: “powiat tatrzański”
- Estonian: “Tatra maakond”
- Finnish: “Tatrzańskin piirikunta”
- French: “powiat des Tatras”
- French: “Powiat des Tatras”
- French: “powiat tatrzański”
- French: “Tatras”
- German: “Powiat Tatrzanski”
- German: “powiat tatrzański”
- German: “Powiat Tatrzański”
- Greek: “Πόβιατ Τάτρα”
- Hebrew: “מחוז טטרה”
- Irish: “Contae Tatra”
- Italian: “distretto di Tatra”
- Italian: “Distretto di Tatra”
- Italian: “powiat tatrzański”
- Javanese: “Powiat Tatra”
- Korean: “타트라군”
- Latvian: “Powiat tatrzański”
- Latvian: “Tatru apriņķis”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tatrzański Kūn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tatra”
- Norwegian: “Tatra”
- Persian: “شهرستان تاترا”
- Polish: “powiat tatrzański”
- Polish: “Powiat tatrzański”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Tatra”
- Portuguese: “powiat tatrzański”
- Romanian: “Județul Tatra”
- Romanian: “Powiat tatrzański”
- Romanian: “Powiatul Tatra”
- Russian: “Татровский повет”
- Russian: “Татровский повят”
- Sardinian: “distretto de Tatra”
- Slovak: “Powiat tatrzański”
- South Azerbaijani: “تاترا”
- Spanish: “Condado de Tatra”
- Spanish: “powiat tatrzański”
- Swedish: “Tatra powiat”
- Turkish: “Powiat Tatrzanski”
- Turkish: “Powiat Tatrzański”
- Turkish: “Tatra ilçesi”
- Turkish: “Tatra İlçesi”
- Turkish: “Tatra”
- Ukrainian: “Татранський повіт”
- Vietnamese: “Tatrzański”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tatra County”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tatra”
- Welsh: “Sir Tatra”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Furmanowa and Ligasówka.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Gubałówka and Samkowa Czuba.
Małopolskie: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Kraków, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Oświęcim, and Zakopane.
Curious Places to Discover
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