Hel

Hel is a town at the end of Hel peninsula in . It is surrounded by the sea and is a water sport centre. The settlement was first mentioned in the early Middle Ages and its inhabitants lived on piracy.
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  • Type: Town with 2,980 residents
  • Description: place in Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
  • Also known as: “Hel, Poland”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hel Lighthouse and Fisheries Museum.

Scenic viewpoint
Photo: DerHexer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an active lighthouse in the town of Hel, in Poland. It is situated at the eastern tip of the and guides into Gdańsk Bay and the .

Museum
Photo: Dawid Galus, CC BY-SA 3.0 pl.

Railway station
Photo: Sebastian Maćkiewicz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a railway station serving the town of Hel, in the , . The station opened in 1922 and is located on the Reda–Hel railway. The train services are operated by .

Hel

Latitude
54.6066° or 54° 36′ 24″ north
Longitude
18.8027° or 18° 48′ 10″ east
Population
2,980
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
United Nations Location Code
PL HEL
Open location code
9F6WJR43+M3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 524124149
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3098030
Wiki­data ID
Q848973
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Waray—“Hel” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Hel (Poloniako hiria)”
  • Basque: “Hel”
  • Belarusian: “Гель”
  • Belarusian: “Хель”
  • Bulgarian: “Хел (град)”
  • Bulgarian: “Хел”
  • Catalan: “Hel”
  • Cebuano: “Hel (kapital sa munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Hel”
  • Chechen: “Хель”
  • Chinese: “Hel”
  • Chinese: “海爾”
  • Chinese: “赫尔”
  • Chinese: “赫爾”
  • Czech: “Hel”
  • Czech: “Hél”
  • Czech: “Hela”
  • Dutch: “Hel”
  • Esperanto: “Hel”
  • Estonian: “Hel”
  • Finnish: “Hel”
  • French: “Hel”
  • German: “Hel”
  • German: “Hela”
  • Greek: “Χελ”
  • Hungarian: “Hel”
  • Italian: “Hel”
  • Japanese: “ヘル”
  • Javanese: “Hel, Polandia”
  • Javanese: “Hel”
  • Kashubian: “Hél”
  • Korean: “헬”
  • Latvian: “Hél”
  • Latvian: “Hela”
  • Lithuanian: “Helas”
  • Lithuanian: “Helis”
  • Macedonian: “Хел”
  • Malay: “Hel, Poland”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hél”
  • Norwegian: “Hel”
  • Persian: “هل، لهستان”
  • Polish: “Hel”
  • Portuguese: “Hel”
  • Romanian: “Hel, Polonia”
  • Romanian: “Hel”
  • Russian: “Хел”
  • Russian: “Хель”
  • Serbian: “Хел”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hel”
  • Silesian: “Hel (mjasto)”
  • Silesian: “Hel”
  • Slovak: “Hel”
  • Slovenian: “Hel, Poljska”
  • Slovenian: “Hel”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هل، لهیستان”
  • Spanish: “Hel”
  • Swedish: “Hel, Polen”
  • Swedish: “Hel”
  • Tatar: “Һел”
  • Turkish: “Hel, Polonya”
  • Udmurt: “Хель”
  • Ukrainian: “Гель”
  • Ukrainian: “Хел”
  • Ukrainian: “Хель”
  • Urdu: “ہیل، پولینڈ”
  • Vietnamese: “Hel”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hel, Polonya”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hel”

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