Wieliczka County

Wieliczka County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in , southern . It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998.
  • Powiat with about 143,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 230 metres (760 feet)
  • …is also known as “powiat wielicki”
  • Description: powiat of Poland
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wieliczka Salt Mine and Żupny Castle.
The is a salt mine in the town of , near in southern .
is a Gothic castle, the former headquarters of the and Salt Mine.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wieliczka and Lednica Górna.
is a town near in Province in southern Poland.
is a in the administrative…
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Latitude
49.9857° or 49° 59′ 9″ north
Longitude
20.0549° or 20° 3′ 18″ east
Open location code
8GX2X3P3+7X
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Wieliczka County” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Wieliczka barrutia”
  • Belarusian: “Вяліцкі павет”
  • Bulgarian: “Велички окръг”
  • Catalan: “Wieliczka”
  • Cebuano: “Powiat wielicki”
  • Chinese: “維利奇卡縣”
  • Czech: “Okres Wieliczka”
  • Dutch: “Powiat Wielicki”
  • Dutch: “Wieliczka”
  • Esperanto: “Distrikto Wieliczka”
  • Esperanto: “powiat wielicki”
  • Estonian: “Wieliczka maakond”
  • Finnish: “Wieliczkan piirikunta”
  • French: “Powiat de Wieliczka”
  • French: “powiat wielicki”
  • French: “Wieliczka”
  • German: “Powiat Wielicki”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז וייליצ’קה”
  • Hungarian: “Wieliczka megye”
  • Indonesian: “Kabupaten Wieliczka”
  • Irish: “Contae Wieliczka”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Wieliczka”
  • Italian: “powiat wielicki”
  • Javanese: “Powiat Wieliczka”
  • Korean: “비엘리치카군”
  • Latvian: “Veličkas apriņķis”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Wielicki Kūn”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Wieliczka Kūn”
  • Persian: “شهرستان ویلیچکا”
  • Polish: “Powiat wielicki”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Wieliczka”
  • Portuguese: “powiat wielicki”
  • Romanian: “Powiatul Wieliczka”
  • Russian: “Величский повет”
  • Russian: “Величский повят”
  • Sardinian: “distretto de Wieliczka”
  • Slovak: “Powiat wielicki”
  • Slovenian: “Powiat Wielicki”
  • Slovenian: “Wieliško okrožje”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ویلیچکا”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Wieliczka”
  • Spanish: “powiat wielicki”
  • Swedish: “Wieliczka powiat”
  • Turkish: “Wieliczka İlçesi”
  • Turkish: “Wieliczka”
  • Ukrainian: “Велицький повіт”
  • Vietnamese: “Wielicki”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Wieliczka”
  • Welsh: “Sir Wieliczka”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Lednica Niemiecka and Lednica Dolna.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Wieliczka Concentration Camp and Turowka Hotel & Spa.

Małopolskie: Highlights

Learn more about Kraków and Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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