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 Hel railway station.

Scenic viewpoint
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 .

Railway station
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 Przewozy Regionalne.

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:
  • 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.