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Kielce

Kielce

Kielce is the largest city of the Holy Cross Voivodeship with a population just under 200,000 residents. It is also its capital.
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  • Type: City with 184,000 residents
  • Description: city and capital of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship in south-central Poland
  • Also known as: “Kel’tse”, “Kel’tsy”, “Kelts”, “Keltz”, “Kilts”, and “Kiltz”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Stadion Miejski and Kraków Bishops Palace, Kielce.

Stadium
Photo: Staszek Szybki Jest, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The , named EXBUD Arena due to the sponsorship reasons, is a multi-purpose stadium in Kielce, . It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Korona Kielce.

Castle
Photo: KrzysztofPoplawski, CC BY 4.0.
The Palace of the Kraków Bishops in Kielce, was built in the 17th century as a summer residence of bishops of Kraków in Kielce, . The architecture of the palace constitutes a unique mélange of Polish and Italian traditions and reflects political ambitions of its founder.

Church
Photo: Staszek Szybki Jest, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary simplified to , is a Roman Catholic church that has the status of cathedral and basilica located in the city of Kielce in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Domaszowice.

Village
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is a in the administrative district of , within , , in south-central . It lies approximately 6 km south-west of and 6 km south-east of the regional capital Kielce.

Kielce

Latitude
50.872° or 50° 52′ 19″ north
Longitude
20.631° or 20° 37′ 52″ east
Population
184,000
Elevation
267 metres (876 feet)
IATA airport code
QKI
United Nations Location Code
PL KLC
Open location code
9G22VJCJ+QC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2110720553
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
769250
Wiki­data ID
Q102317
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Kielce” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كيلتسي”
  • Arabic: “كيلسي”
  • Armenian: “Կելցե”
  • Asturian: “Kielce”
  • Azerbaijani: “Keltse”
  • Bashkir: “Кельце”
  • Basque: “Kielce”
  • Belarusian: “Кельцы”
  • Belarusian: “Кельцэ”
  • Bengali: “কিলসে”
  • Breton: “Kielce”
  • Bulgarian: “Келце”
  • Catalan: “Kielce”
  • Cebuano: “Kielce”
  • Central Kurdish: “کێلسی”
  • Chechen: “Кельце”
  • Chinese: “Kielce”
  • Chinese: “凯尔采”
  • Chinese: “凱爾採”
  • Chinese: “凱爾采”
  • Chinese: “奇耶尔彻”
  • Chinese: “奇耶爾徹”
  • Chinese: “奇耶爾謝”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Keltse”
  • Croatian: “Kielce”
  • Czech: “Kielce”
  • Danish: “Kielce”
  • Dutch: “Kielce”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كيلسى”
  • Erzya: “Кельце ош”
  • Esperanto: “Kielce”
  • Esperanto: “Kielco”
  • Estonian: “Kielce”
  • Finnish: “Kielce”
  • French: “Kielce”
  • Georgian: “კელცე”
  • German: “Kielce”
  • German: “Kjelzy”
  • Greek: “Κιέλτσε”
  • Greek: “Κίελτσε”
  • Gujarati: “કિએલ્સ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Khái-ngì-chhái”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kielce”
  • Hebrew: “קיאלצה”
  • Hebrew: “קיילצה”
  • Hebrew: “קְיֶילְצֶה”
  • Hebrew: “קילץ”
  • Hebrew: “קילצה”
  • Hebrew: “קלץ”
  • Hebrew: “קלצה”
  • Hebrew: “קעלץ”
  • Hindi: “कील्स”
  • Hungarian: “Kielce”
  • Icelandic: “Kielce”
  • Ido: “Kielce”
  • Indonesian: “Kielce”
  • Irish: “Kielce”
  • Italian: “Kielce”
  • Japanese: “キェルツェ”
  • Japanese: “キエルツェ”
  • Javanese: “Kielce”
  • Kannada: “ಕೀಲ್ಸೆ”
  • Kashubian: “Kielce”
  • Korean: “키엘체”
  • Latvian: “Kelce”
  • Latvian: “Keļce”
  • Latvian: “Kielce”
  • Lithuanian: “Kelcai”
  • Lithuanian: “Kielcė”
  • Low German: “Kielce”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Kielce”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kielce”
  • Macedonian: “Келце”
  • Macedonian: “Кјељце”
  • Malay: “Kielce”
  • Manx: “Kielce”
  • Marathi: “केल्स”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kielce”
  • Mingrelian: “კელცე”
  • Moksha: “Кельцэ”
  • Nauru: “Kielce”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kielce”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kielce”
  • Norwegian: “Kielce”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kielce”
  • Ossetian: “Кельце”
  • Persian: “کیلتس”
  • Persian: “کیلتسه”
  • Polish: “Kielce”
  • Portuguese: “Kielce”
  • Quechua: “Kielce”
  • Romanian: “Kielce”
  • Russian: “Кельце”
  • Russian: “Кельцы”
  • Scots: “Kielce”
  • Serbian: “Кјелце”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kielce”
  • Silesian: “Kelce”
  • Silesian: “Kielce”
  • Sinhala: “කීල්සේ”
  • Slovak: “Kielce”
  • Slovak: “Powiat Kielce”
  • Slovenian: “Kielce”
  • Spanish: “Kielce”
  • Swedish: “Kielce”
  • Tamil: “கையில்சே”
  • Tatar: “Келсе”
  • Tatar: “Кельце”
  • Telugu: “కీల్స్”
  • Tetum: “Kielce”
  • Thai: “คีเอลเซ”
  • Turkish: “Kielce ilçesi”
  • Turkish: “Kielce İlçesi”
  • Turkish: “Kielce”
  • Udmurt: “Кельце”
  • Ukrainian: “Кельце, Кєльце”
  • Ukrainian: “Кельце”
  • Ukrainian: “Кельці”
  • Urdu: “کیئلتسہ”
  • Uzbek: “Kelse”
  • Venetian: “Kielce”
  • Veps: “Kel’ce”
  • Veps: “Kelce”
  • Vietnamese: “Kielce”
  • Volapük: “Kielce”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kielce”
  • Welsh: “Kielce”
  • Western Panjabi: “کیلچ”
  • Wu Chinese: “凯尔采”
  • Yiddish: “Keltz”
  • Yiddish: “קילץ”
  • Yiddish: “קעלץ”
  • Yue Chinese: “奇耶爾謝”
  • “Kielce”
  • “ma tomo Kijese”

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