Chęciny
Chęciny is a town of 4,400 people in the Świętokrzyskie province in central Poland. It is 15 km south of the regional capital of Kielce.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Chęciny Castle and Synagogue in Chęciny.
Chęciny Castle
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Chęciny Royal Castle was built in the late 13th century in Chęciny, Poland. It fell into ruin in the 18th century and remains in that state to this day.
Rezerwat Góra Rzepka
Nature reserve
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Rezerwat Góra Rzepka is a nature reserve.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Podzamcze Chęcińskie and Radkowice.
Podzamcze Chęcińskie
Village
Photo: Robert Niedźwiedzki, CC BY 3.0.
Podzamcze Chęcińskie is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Chęciny, within Kielce County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately 5 km south of Chęciny and 17 km south-west of the regional capital Kielce.
Radkowice
Village
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Radkowice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Chęciny, within Kielce County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately 3 km south-east of Chęciny and 14 km south-west of the regional capital Kielce.
Skiby
Village
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Skiby is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Chęciny, within Kielce County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately 3 km north-west of Chęciny and 15 km south-west of the regional capital Kielce.
Chęciny
- Type: Town with 4,320 residents
- Description: city of Poland
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Gmina Chęciny, Kielce County, Świętokrzyskie, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
50.8001° or 50° 48′ 0″ northLongitude
20.4622° or 20° 27′ 44″ eastPopulation
4,320Elevation
279 metres (915 feet)Open location code
9G22RF26+2VOpenStreetMap ID
node 339828805OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
774572Wikidata ID
Q991924
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Yiddish—“Chęciny” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Chęciny”
- Belarusian: “Хэнціны”
- Cebuano: “Chęciny”
- Chechen: “Хенцины”
- Chinese: “亨齊內”
- Chinese: “亨齐内”
- Chinese: “切尔切尼”
- Czech: “Chęciny”
- Dutch: “Checiny”
- Dutch: “Chęciny”
- Dutch: “Tjaard Hoogenraad”
- Esperanto: “Checiny”
- Esperanto: “Chęciny”
- Estonian: “Chęciny”
- French: “Chęciny”
- German: “Checiny”
- German: “Chęciny”
- Greek: “Χεντσίνι”
- Hakka Chinese: “Chęciny”
- Hebrew: “חנטשין”
- Indonesian: “Chęciny”
- Irish: “Chęciny”
- Javanese: “Chęciny”
- Latvian: “Chęciny”
- Latvian: “Hencini”
- Malay: “Chęciny”
- Polish: “Chęciny”
- Polish: “Piast Chęciny”
- Portuguese: “Chęciny”
- Romanian: “Checiny”
- Romanian: “Chęciny”
- Russian: “Хенцины”
- Serbian: “Хенћини”
- Silesian: “Chęciny”
- Silesian: “Chynćiny”
- Slovak: “Chęciny”
- Swedish: “Chęciny”
- Tatar: “Хенчины”
- Turkish: “Chęciny”
- Ukrainian: “Хенцини”
- Ukrainian: “Хенціни”
- Vietnamese: “Chęciny”
- Yiddish: “כענטשין”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Chęciny”. Photo: Jakubhal, CC BY-SA 4.0.