Hel
Hel is a town at the end of Hel peninsula in Poland. 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: DerHexer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: DerHexer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- 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 Hel railway station.
Hel Lighthouse
Scenic viewpoint
Photo: DerHexer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hel Lighthouse is an active lighthouse in the town of Hel, Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland. It is situated at the eastern tip of the Hel Peninsula and guides ship traffic into Gdańsk Bay and the Bay of Puck.
Hel railway station
Railway station
Photo: Sebastian Maćkiewicz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Hel railway station is a railway station serving the town of Hel, in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. The station opened in 1922 and is located on the Reda–Hel railway. The train services are operated by Przewozy Regionalne.
Hel
- Categories: urban municipality of Poland and locality
- Location: Puck County, Pomorskie, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
54.6066° or 54° 36′ 24″ northLongitude
18.8027° or 18° 48′ 10″ eastPopulation
2,980Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)United Nations Location Code
PL HELOpen location code
9F6WJR43+M3OpenStreetMap ID
node 524124149OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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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”
- Vietnamese: “Hel”
- Waray (Philippines): “Hel, Polonya”
- Waray (Philippines): “Hel”
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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 “Hel”. Photo: DerHexer, CC BY-SA 3.0.