Poland
Silesian Voivodeship
Cieszyn County

Cieszyn

Cieszyn is a town in the of southern Poland, with a population of 33,500 in 2021. It stands on the River Olza on the Czech border. a short walk west is now a separate town in the Czech Republic.
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  • Type: Town with 34,000 residents
  • Description: border town in southern Poland and the administrative seat of Cieszyn County, Silesian Voivodeship
  • Also known as: “Teschen” and “Těšín”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Český Těšín and Museum of Cieszyn Silesia.

Railway station
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is a railway station.

Museum
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The in Cieszyn is one of the oldest public museums in Central Europe and the oldest public museum in , set up by father Leopold Jan Szersznik in 1802.

Railway station
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is a railway station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Český Těšín and Mosty.

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is a town in in the , with a population of 23,300 as of 2024. Its main industries are metal-working and book production. Cieszyn east across the river is its twin town in the of southern Poland, described in a separate article.

Village
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is a village and part of in in the of the . It was a separate municipality but became administratively a part of in 1960 and later Český Těšín in 1975.

Neighborhood
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was a village in , , . It was a separate municipality, but became administratively a part of in 1947. The name is derived from the świba bush, from the cornus genius.

Cieszyn

Latitude
49.7489° or 49° 44′ 56″ north
Longitude
18.6334° or 18° 38′ 0″ east
Population
34,000
Elevation
273 metres (896 feet)
United Nations Location Code
PL CZY
Open location code
8FXWPJXM+G9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 327364412
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3101321
Wiki­data ID
Q321197
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Cieszyn” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جيشن”
  • Armenian: “Ցեշին”
  • Azerbaijani: “Seşin”
  • Basque: “Cieszyn”
  • Belarusian: “Цешын”
  • Bulgarian: “Чешин”
  • Catalan: “Cieszyn”
  • Cebuano: “Cieszyn (kapital sa munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Cieszyn”
  • Chechen: “Цешин”
  • Chinese: “Cieszyn”
  • Chinese: “切申”
  • Czech: “Cieszyn”
  • Czech: “Polský Těšín”
  • Czech: “Teschen”
  • Czech: “Těšín”
  • Danish: “Cieszyn”
  • Dutch: “Cieszyn”
  • Dutch: “Teschen”
  • Esperanto: “Cieszyn”
  • Esperanto: “Teŝino”
  • Estonian: “Cieszyn”
  • Finnish: “Cieszyn”
  • French: “Cieszyn”
  • French: “Teschen”
  • French: “Těšín”
  • Galician: “Cieszyn”
  • German: “Cieszyn”
  • German: “Teschen”
  • Greek: “Τσιέσιν”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Cieszyn”
  • Hebrew: “טיישין”
  • Hebrew: “טשין”
  • Hebrew: “טשן”
  • Hebrew: “צ’שין”
  • Hebrew: “צשין”
  • Hungarian: “Cieszyn”
  • Indonesian: “Cieszyn”
  • Indonesian: “Teschen”
  • Indonesian: “Tesin”
  • Indonesian: “Těšín”
  • Italian: “Cieszyn”
  • Japanese: “チェシン”
  • Javanese: “Cieszyn”
  • Korean: “치에신”
  • Latin: “Cieszyn”
  • Latin: “Teschena”
  • Latin: “Tessinum”
  • Latvian: “Cešina”
  • Latvian: “Cieszyn”
  • Latvian: “Teschen”
  • Latvian: “Těšín”
  • Lithuanian: “Cešinas”
  • Lithuanian: “Cešynas”
  • Macedonian: “Ќешин”
  • Malay: “Cieszyn”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cieszyn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cieszyn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Teschen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Těšín”
  • Norwegian: “Cieszyn”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cieszyn”
  • Ossetian: “Цешин”
  • Persian: “چیشن”
  • Polish: “Cieszyn”
  • Portuguese: “Cieszyn”
  • Portuguese: “Teschen”
  • Quechua: “Cieszyn”
  • Romanian: “Cieszyn”
  • Romanian: “Teschen”
  • Russian: “Цешин”
  • Rusyn: “Чешин”
  • Serbian: “Ћешин”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cieszyn”
  • Silesian: “Ćešyn”
  • Silesian: “Ćeszyn”
  • Slovak: “Tešín”
  • Slovak: “Těšín”
  • Slovenian: “Cieszyn”
  • Slovenian: “Tešin”
  • Southern Sotho: “Cieszyn”
  • Spanish: “Cieszyn”
  • Spanish: “Teschen”
  • Spanish: “Tesin”
  • Spanish: “Tesín”
  • Spanish: “Tešin”
  • Spanish: “Tešín”
  • Spanish: “Těsin”
  • Spanish: “Těsín”
  • Spanish: “Těšin”
  • Spanish: “Těšín”
  • Swedish: “Cieszyn”
  • Swedish: “Teschen”
  • Swedish: “Tesín”
  • Swedish: “Těšín”
  • Tatar: “Чешын”
  • Turkish: “Cieszyn”
  • Ukrainian: “Тешин”
  • Ukrainian: “Цешин”
  • Ukrainian: “Цєшин”
  • Vietnamese: “Cieszyn”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cieszyn”
  • Welsh: “Cieszyn”

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