Chełm
Chełm is a Baroque town in Lubelskie, Poland. It lies on the main Warsaw - Kyiv road and rail routes, where it is the nearest sizeable Polish town to the Ukrainian border. The border towns are Dorohusk in Poland and Yahodin in Ukraine.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 59,500 residents
- Description: city with powiat rights in the Lublin Voivodeship in south-eastern Poland
- Also known as: “Chelm” and “Kholm”
- Historically known as: “Холм”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chełm Chalk Undergrounds and Chełm.
Chełm Chalk Undergrounds
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Chełm Chalk Tunnels are a system of tunnels dug into the chalk under the city of Chełm in eastern Poland. The tunnelling began in the Middle Ages for chalk mining and was discontinued in the 19th century.
Basilica of the Birth of the Virgin Mary
Church
Photo: Ala z, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Basilica of the Birth of the Virgin Mary is a church and monastery complex of the Roman Catholic Church located in the Polish city of Chełm. The church and the courtyard of the basilica stand in the centre of Chełm on Chełm Hill.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Okszów and Strupin Łanowy.
Okszów
Village
Photo: Adrian.mazurek, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Okszów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Chełm, within Chełm County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland.
Strupin Łanowy
Village
Strupin Łanowy is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Chełm, within Chełm County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland.
Rudka
Village
Rudka is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Chełm, within Chełm County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland.
Chełm
- Categories: city with powiat rights in Poland and locality
- Location: Lubelskie, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.1339° or 51° 8′ 2″ northLongitude
23.4712° or 23° 28′ 16″ eastPopulation
59,500Elevation
177 metres (581 feet)United Nations Location Code
PL CLKOpen location code
9G354FMC+HFOpenStreetMap ID
node 253543591OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Chełm” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تشيلم”
- Armenian: “Խելմ”
- Asturian: “Chełm”
- Azerbaijani: “Xelm”
- Basque: “Chełm”
- Bavarian: “Chełm”
- Belarusian: “Хелм”
- Belarusian: “Холм”
- Belarusian: “Хэлм”
- Bengali: “কেম”
- Bulgarian: “Хелм”
- Catalan: “Chełm”
- Cebuano: “Chełm”
- Chechen: “Хелм”
- Chinese: “Chełm”
- Chinese: “海乌姆”
- Chinese: “海烏姆”
- Czech: “Chełm”
- Danish: “Chełm”
- Dutch: “Chełm”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تشيلم”
- Esperanto: “Chełm”
- Estonian: “Chełm”
- Finnish: “Chełm”
- French: “Chełm”
- Georgian: “ხელმი”
- German: “Chełm”
- German: “Cholm”
- Greek: “Χέουμ”
- Gujarati: “ચેલ્મ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Chełm”
- Hebrew: “חלם”
- Hindi: “चेल्म”
- Hungarian: “Chełm”
- Ido: “Chełm”
- Indonesian: “Chełm”
- Interlingua: “Chełm”
- Irish: “Chełm”
- Italian: “Chełm”
- Japanese: “ヘウム”
- Javanese: “Chełm”
- Kannada: “ಚೆಲ್ಮ್”
- Kashubian: “Chełm”
- Korean: “헤움”
- Latvian: “Chełm”
- Latvian: “Helma”
- Lithuanian: “Chelmas”
- Lower Sorbian: “Chełm”
- Malay: “Chełm”
- Maori: “Chełm”
- Marathi: “चेल्म”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chełm”
- Nauru: “Chełm”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chełm”
- Norwegian: “Chełm”
- Ossetian: “Хелм”
- Persian: “خهاوم”
- Polish: “Chełm”
- Portuguese: “Chełm”
- Romanian: “Chełm”
- Russian: “Хелм”
- Russian: “Холм”
- Scots: “Chełm”
- Serbian: “Хелм”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Chełm”
- Silesian: “Chełm”
- Sinhala: “චෙල්ම්”
- Slovak: “Chełm”
- Slovak: “Powiat Chełm”
- Slovenian: “Chełm”
- South Azerbaijani: “خهاوم”
- Spanish: “Chełm”
- Swedish: “Chełm”
- Tamil: “கெல்ம்”
- Tatar: “Хелм”
- Telugu: “చెల్మ్”
- Thai: “เชล์ม”
- Turkish: “Chelm ilçesi”
- Turkish: “Chelm İlçesi”
- Turkish: “Chełm ilçesi”
- Turkish: “Chełm İlçesi”
- Turkish: “Chełm”
- Ukrainian: “Хелм”
- Ukrainian: “Холм”
- Urdu: “چیلم”
- Vietnamese: “Chełm”
- Waray (Philippines): “Chełm”
- Welsh: “Chełm”
- Yiddish: “כעלם”
- Yiddish: “כעלעם”
- “ma tomo Ken”
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