Ełk
Ełk is a city in northeastern Poland with 61,677 inhabitants as of December 2021. It is the seat of Ełk County in the Warmian–Masurian Voivodeship. It lies on the shore of Ełk Lake, which was formed by a glacier, and is surrounded by extensive forests.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: 1957birth, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: 1957birth, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 60,400 residents
- Description: city and urban gmina of Poland
- Also known as: “Elk”, “Lik”, and “Lyck”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ełk train station and Ełk Cathedral.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Konieczki and Siedliska.
Konieczki
Village
Photo: Niegodzisie, CC BY 4.0.
Konieczki is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Ełk, within Ełk County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.
Siedliska
Village
Photo: Ath29, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Siedliska is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Ełk, within Ełk County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 5 km north-west of Ełk and 120 km east of the regional capital Olsztyn.
Ełk
- Categories: urban municipality of Poland and locality
- Location: Gmina Ełk, Ełk County, Warmia-Masuria, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
53.8248° or 53° 49′ 29″ northLongitude
22.3616° or 22° 21′ 42″ eastPopulation
60,400Elevation
127 metres (417 feet)United Nations Location Code
PL QKDOpen location code
9G54R9F6+WJOpenStreetMap ID
node 253553350OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Ełk” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إلك”
- Arabic: “إيلك”
- Basque: “Ełk”
- Belarusian: “Лык”
- Belarusian: “Элк (Польшча)”
- Belarusian: “Элк”
- Bengali: “ইল্ক”
- Bosnian: “Ełk”
- Bulgarian: “Елк”
- Bulgarian: “Люк”
- Catalan: “Ełk”
- Catalan: “Lyck”
- Cebuano: “Ełk (kapital sa powiat)”
- Cebuano: “Ełk”
- Chechen: “Элк”
- Chinese: “Ełk”
- Chinese: “埃烏克”
- Croatian: “Lyck”
- Czech: “Ełk”
- Czech: “Lyck”
- Danish: “Ełk”
- Dutch: “Ełk”
- Esperanto: “Ełk”
- Esperanto: “Lyck”
- Estonian: “Ełk”
- Estonian: “Lyck”
- Finnish: “Ełk”
- French: “Ełk”
- French: “Łęk”
- French: “Lyck”
- German: “Ełk”
- German: “Lyck”
- Greek: “Έουκ”
- Gujarati: “એલ્ક”
- Hebrew: “אלק”
- Hindi: “एल्क”
- Hungarian: “Ełk”
- Indonesian: “Ełk”
- Irish: “Ełk”
- Italian: “Elk”
- Italian: “Ełk”
- Italian: “Lyck”
- Japanese: “エウク”
- Javanese: “Ełk”
- Kannada: “ಎಲ್ಕ್”
- Korean: “에우크”
- Ladin: “Ełk”
- Latvian: “Ełk”
- Latvian: “Elka”
- Latvian: “Luka”
- Latvian: “Lyck”
- Lithuanian: “Ełk”
- Lithuanian: “Lukas”
- Lithuanian: “Lyck”
- Lithuanian: “Lyckas”
- Lower Sorbian: “Ełk”
- Luxembourgish: “Ełk”
- Luxembourgish: “Lyck”
- Macedonian: “Елк”
- Malay: “Ełk”
- Marathi: “एल्क”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ełk”
- Moksha: “Элк”
- Nauru: “Ełk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ełk”
- Norwegian: “Elk”
- Norwegian: “Ełk”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ełk”
- Polish: “Ełk”
- Polish: “Łęk”
- Polish: “Lyck”
- Portuguese: “Ełk”
- Portuguese: “Lyck”
- Romanian: “Ełk”
- Russian: “Люк”
- Russian: “Элк”
- Serbian: “Елк”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ełk (grad)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ełk”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lyck”
- Silesian: “Ełk”
- Sinhala: “එල්ක්”
- Slovak: “Ełk”
- Slovak: “Lyck”
- Slovenian: “Ełk”
- Spanish: “Ełk”
- Spanish: “Lyck”
- Swedish: “Ełk”
- Swedish: “Lyck”
- Swiss German: “Lyck”
- Tamil: “எல்க்”
- Tatar: “Элк”
- Telugu: “ఎల్క్”
- Thai: “เอลก์”
- Thai: “แอวก์”
- Turkish: “Ełk”
- Ukrainian: “Елк”
- Ukrainian: “Люк”
- Urdu: “یلک”
- Vietnamese: “Elk”
- Vietnamese: “Ełk”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ełk”
- “Ełk”
- “Łęk”
- “Lyck”
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