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Opole Voivodeship

Opole

Opole is the capital city of , in south west . The historical capital of Upper Silesia was badly damaged during the USSR invasion of Silesia at the end of World War II, but many fine houses in the old town have been rebuilt.
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  • Type: City with 127,000 residents
  • Description: city with powiat rights of Poland
  • Also known as: “Oppein” and “Oppeln”
Photo: Daviidos, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Opole Główne railway station and Opole Zoo.

Railway station
Photo: Lestath, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Opole Główne is a major railway station in the southern city of Opole. It also is the biggest station in , with connections to all major Polish cities, several local towns of the area, as well as international locations, such as , and .

Zoo
Photo: Kaww, Public domain.
Zoo Opole, is a zoo in the city of Opole, . It was founded in 1930. About 20 hectares in extent, it houses around 1000 animals of about 240 different species. It is located on Bolko Island in the Oder River.

Town hall
Photo: Daviidos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- a town hall built in the Neo-Renaissance architectural style in the Śródmieście borough in Opole. The town hall was built on the exemplar of the in , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Winów and Chmielowice.

Suburb
Photo: Daviidos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a neighbourhood of Opole in , in southern Poland, located in the southern part of the city. Before 2017 it was a part of . The name of the district is of Polish origin and comes from the word wino, which means "wine".

Suburb
Photo: Kso, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a neighbourhood of Opole, , located in the south-western part of the city. Before 2017 it was a in the administrative district of , within Opole County, .

Village
Photo: Daviidos, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a in the administrative district of , within Opole County, , in southern Poland. The name of the village is of Polish origin and comes from the word , meaning a small island on a river or lake.

Opole

Latitude
50.6668° or 50° 40′ 1″ north
Longitude
17.9236° or 17° 55′ 25″ east
Population
127,000
Elevation
173 metres (568 feet)
IATA airport code
QPM
United Nations Location Code
PL OPO
Open location code
9F2VMW8F+PF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 128054630
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3090048
Wiki­data ID
Q92212
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Opole” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Opole”
  • Albanian: “Opole”
  • Arabic: “أبولوسكي”
  • Arabic: “أوبولي”
  • Armenian: “Օպոլե”
  • Asturian: “Opole”
  • Azerbaijani: “Opole”
  • Bashkir: “Ополе”
  • Basque: “Opole”
  • Belarusian: “Аполе”
  • Bengali: “ওপলে”
  • Bosnian: “Opole”
  • Breton: “Opole”
  • Bulgarian: “Ополе”
  • Bulgarian: “Оппельн”
  • Catalan: “Opole”
  • Catalan: “Oppeln”
  • Cebuano: “Opole (kapital sa gingsakopan)”
  • Cebuano: “Opole”
  • Chechen: “Ополе”
  • Chinese: “Opole”
  • Chinese: “奥波莱”
  • Chinese: “奧波萊”
  • Corsican: “Opole”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Opole”
  • Croatian: “Opole”
  • Croatian: “Oppeln”
  • Czech: “Opole”
  • Czech: “Opolí”
  • Czech: “Oppeln”
  • Danish: “Opole”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Opole (sûke)”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Opole”
  • Dutch: “Opole”
  • Dutch: “Oppeln”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوبولى”
  • Esperanto: “Opole”
  • Esperanto: “Opolí”
  • Esperanto: “Oppeln”
  • Estonian: “Opole”
  • Estonian: “Oppeln”
  • Finnish: “Opole”
  • French: “Opole”
  • French: “Oppeln”
  • Galician: “Opole”
  • Georgian: “ოპოლე”
  • German: “Opole”
  • German: “Opolí”
  • German: “Oppeln O.S.”
  • German: “Oppeln”
  • Greek: “Οπόλε”
  • Greek: “Όπολε”
  • Gujarati: “ઓપોલે”
  • Hakka Chinese: “O-pô-lòi”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Opole”
  • Hebrew: “אופולה”
  • Hebrew: “אופולנו”
  • Hindi: “ओपोले”
  • Hungarian: “Opole”
  • Hungarian: “Oppeln”
  • Icelandic: “Opole”
  • Ido: “Opole”
  • Indonesian: “Opole”
  • Irish: “Opole”
  • Italian: “Opole”
  • Italian: “Oppeln”
  • Japanese: “オポーレ”
  • Japanese: “オポレ”
  • Javanese: “Opole”
  • Kannada: “ಓಪೋಲ್”
  • Kashubian: “Òpòle”
  • Kölsch: “Oppeln”
  • Korean: “오폴레”
  • Latin: “Opolia”
  • Latin: “Oppolia”
  • Latvian: “Opole”
  • Latvian: “Oppeln”
  • Ligurian: “Opole”
  • Limburgan: “Opole”
  • Lithuanian: “Opolė”
  • Lithuanian: “Oppeln”
  • Lombard: “Opole”
  • Low German: “Oppeln”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Opole”
  • Macedonian: “Ополе”
  • Malay: “Opole”
  • Manx: “Opole”
  • Marathi: “ऑपॉली”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Opole”
  • Mingrelian: “ოპოლე”
  • Mongolian: “Ополе”
  • Nauru: “Opole”
  • Nepali: “ओपोल”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Opole”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Opole”
  • Norwegian: “Opole”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Opole”
  • Ossetian: “Ополе”
  • Persian: “اوپوله”
  • Polish: “Opole”
  • Polish: “Oppeln”
  • Portuguese: “Opole”
  • Portuguese: “Oppeln”
  • Quechua: “Opole”
  • Romanian: “Opole”
  • Romanian: “Oppeln”
  • Russian: “Ополе”
  • Russian: “Оппельн”
  • Santali: “ᱳᱯᱳᱞᱮ”
  • Scots: “Opole”
  • Serbian: “Ополе”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Opole”
  • Silesian: “Ôpole”
  • Silesian: “Uopole”
  • Sinhala: “ඕපෝල්”
  • Slovak: “Opole”
  • Slovak: “Oppeln”
  • Slovenian: “Opole”
  • Spanish: “Opole”
  • Spanish: “Oppeln”
  • Swedish: “Opole”
  • Swedish: “Oppeln”
  • Swiss German: “Oppeln”
  • Tamil: “ஆபோலி”
  • Tatar: “Ополе”
  • Telugu: “ఒపోల్”
  • Tetum: “Opole”
  • Thai: “ออปอเล”
  • Thai: “ออปอแล”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Oppeln”
  • Turkish: “Opole ilçesi”
  • Turkish: “Opole İlçesi”
  • Turkish: “Opole”
  • Udmurt: “Ополе”
  • Ukrainian: “Ополе”
  • Ukrainian: “Оппельн”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Opole”
  • Urdu: “اوپولے”
  • Venetian: “Opole”
  • Veps: “Opole”
  • Vietnamese: “Opole”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Opole”
  • Welsh: “Opole”
  • Western Panjabi: “اوپول”
  • Wu Chinese: “奥波莱”
  • Yue Chinese: “奧波萊”
  • “ma tomo Opole”

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