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.
- Town with 2,980 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 1 metre (3 feet)
- …is also known as “Hel, Poland”
- Description: place in Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hel Lighthouse and Fisheries Museum.
Hel Lighthouse
Scenic viewpoint
Hel
- Categories
- Location
- View on OpenStreetMap
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikivoyage.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.
Latitude
54.6066° or 54° 36′ 24″ north
Longitude
18.8027° or 18° 48′ 10″ east
UN/LOCODE
PL HEL
Open location code
9F6WJR43+M3
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
Satellite Map
Discover this place from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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: “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”
Places with the Same Name
Discover other places named “Hel”.
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Kolonia Rybacka and Bór.
Explore These Curated Destinations
Discover places selected for their distinct character and enduring appeal.