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Poznań

Poznań

Poznań is the largest city in , in the west of , and one of the largest metropoles in the whole country. Situated roughly equidistantly between and , it serves as a major economic hub, and a centre for industry and commerce.
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  • Type: City with 547,000 residents
  • Description: capital of the Greater Poland Voivodeship in west-central Poland
  • Also known as: “Posen” and “Poznan”
Photo: Leandro Neumann Ciuffo, CC BY 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Poznań Town Hall and National Museum.

Town hall
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is a historic city hall in the city of Poznań, Poland, located at the Poznań Old Town in the centre of the Old Market Square. It used to serve as the seat of local government until 1939, and now houses a museum.

Museum
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The in Poznań, , abbreviated MNP, is a state-owned cultural institution and one of the largest museums in Poland. It houses a rich collection of Polish painting from the 16th century on, and a collection of foreign painting.

Church
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The Archcathedral Basilica of St. Peter and St. Paul in Poznań is one of the oldest churches in and the oldest Polish cathedral, dating from the 10th century.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Osiedle Sołacz and Ostrów Tumski.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Quarter
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is an island between two branches of the river in the city of Poznań in western Poland. and other ecclesiastical buildings occupy the central part of the island.

Quarter
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is a historic neighbourhood of the city of Poznań in western . It lies on the right bank of the river, opposite the island of where the is situated.

Poznań

Latitude
52.4083° or 52° 24′ 30″ north
Longitude
16.9335° or 16° 56′ 1″ east
Population
547,000
Elevation
69 metres (226 feet)
IATA airport code
POZ
United Nations Location Code
PL POZ
Open location code
9F4RCW5M+8C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27161819
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3088171
Wiki­data ID
Q268
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Poznań” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Posen”
  • Afrikaans: “Poznań”
  • Albanian: “Poseni”
  • Albanian: “Poznań”
  • Amharic: “ፖዝነኝ”
  • Arabic: “بوزنان”
  • Armenian: “Պոզնան”
  • Asturian: “Poznań”
  • Azerbaijani: “Poznan”
  • Balinese: “Poznań”
  • Basque: “Poznań”
  • Belarusian: “Познань”
  • Bengali: “পজনান”
  • Bengali: “পোজনান”
  • Bosnian: “Poznań”
  • Breton: “Poznań”
  • Bulgarian: “Познан”
  • Catalan: “Poznań”
  • Cebuano: “Poznań”
  • Central Kurdish: “پۆزنان”
  • Chechen: “Познань”
  • Chinese: “Poznań”
  • Chinese: “波兹南”
  • Chinese: “波茲南”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Poznan”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Pоznan”
  • Croatian: “Poznanj”
  • Czech: “Posen”
  • Czech: “Posnania”
  • Czech: “Poznań”
  • Czech: “Poznaň”
  • Danish: “Poznań”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Poznan”
  • Dutch: “Posen”
  • Dutch: “Poznan”
  • Dutch: “Poznań”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بوزنان”
  • Erzya: “Познань ош”
  • Esperanto: “Poznań”
  • Esperanto: “Poznano”
  • Estonian: “Poznań”
  • Fijian: “Poznań”
  • Finnish: “Poznań”
  • French: “Posen”
  • French: “Posnan”
  • French: “Posnania”
  • French: “Posnanie”
  • French: “Poznań”
  • Galician: “Poznan”
  • Georgian: “პოზნანი”
  • German: “Posen”
  • German: “Posnania”
  • German: “Poznań”
  • German: “Poßen” (historical)
  • Greek: “Poznań”
  • Greek: “Πόζναν”
  • Gujarati: “પોઝ્નાન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Pô-tsṳ-nàm”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Poznań”
  • Hebrew: “פוזנן”
  • Hindi: “पॉज़्नान”
  • Hungarian: “Poznań”
  • Icelandic: “Poznań”
  • Ido: “Poznań”
  • Indonesian: “Poznań”
  • Interlingua: “Posnania”
  • Interlingue: “Poznań”
  • Irish: “Poznań”
  • Italian: “Poznan”
  • Italian: “Poznań”
  • Japanese: “Poznań”
  • Japanese: “ポズナニ”
  • Japanese: “ポズナン”
  • Javanese: “Poznań”
  • Kalaallisut: “Poznań”
  • Kannada: “ಪೋಜ್ನ್ಯಾನ”
  • Kannada: “ಪೋಝ್ನಾನ್”
  • Kashubian: “Pòznóń”
  • Kazakh: “Познань”
  • Kikuyu: “Poznań”
  • Kirghiz: “Познань”
  • Korean: “Poznań”
  • Korean: “포즈난”
  • Latin: “Posnania”
  • Latvian: “Poznaņa”
  • Lithuanian: “Poznanė”
  • Lombard: “Poznan”
  • Low German: “Posen”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Poznań”
  • Luxembourgish: “Poznań”
  • Macedonian: “Познањ”
  • Malagasy: “Poznań”
  • Malay: “Poznan”
  • Malay: “Poznań”
  • Maltese: “Poznan”
  • Maltese: “Poznań”
  • Manx: “Poznań”
  • Marathi: “पोझ्नान”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Poznań”
  • Mingrelian: “პოზნანი”
  • Moksha: “Познань”
  • Mongolian: “Познань”
  • Nauru: “Poznań”
  • Neapolitan: “Poznań”
  • Nepali: “पोज्नान”
  • Northern Frisian: “Posen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Poznań”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Poznań”
  • Norwegian: “Poznań”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Poznań”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Posen”
  • Ossetian: “Познань”
  • Papiamento: “Poznań”
  • Persian: “پوزنان”
  • Polish: “Posen”
  • Polish: “Posnania”
  • Polish: “Poznań” (historical)
  • Portuguese: “Posnânia”
  • Portuguese: “Poznań”
  • Quechua: “Poznań”
  • Romanian: “Posnan”
  • Romanian: “Poznań”
  • Russia Buriat: “Познань”
  • Russian: “Poznań”
  • Russian: “Познань”
  • Santali: “ᱯᱳᱡᱽᱱᱟᱱ”
  • Scots: “Poznań”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Poznań”
  • Serbian: “Познањ”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Poznań”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Poznanj”
  • Silesian: “Posnania”
  • Silesian: “Poznańy”
  • Sinhala: “පොස්නාරි”
  • Slovak: “Poznaň”
  • Slovenian: “Poznanj”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پوزنان”
  • Spanish: “Posen”
  • Spanish: “Posnania”
  • Spanish: “Poznan”
  • Spanish: “Poznań”
  • Swedish: “Poznan”
  • Swedish: “Poznań”
  • Tamil: “போசுனான்”
  • Tatar: “Познань”
  • Telugu: “పోజ్నాన్”
  • Tetum: “Poznań”
  • Thai: “ปอซนัญ”
  • Thai: “พอซนาน”
  • Tibetan: “ཕྰོ་ཟོ་ནན།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Poznań”
  • Turkish: “Poznan ilçesi”
  • Turkish: “Poznan İlçesi”
  • Turkish: “Poznań ilçesi”
  • Turkish: “Poznań İlçesi”
  • Turkish: “Poznań”
  • Udmurt: “Познань”
  • Uighur: “Poznan”
  • Ukrainian: “Познань”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Poznań”
  • Urdu: “پوزنان”
  • Uzbek: “Poznan”
  • Venetian: “Poznań”
  • Veps: “Poznan‘”
  • Veps: “Poznan’”
  • Veps: “Poznan”
  • Vietnamese: “Poznań”
  • Vlaams: “Poznań”
  • Volapük: “Poznań”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Poznań”
  • Welsh: “Posen”
  • Welsh: “Poznan”
  • Welsh: “Poznań”
  • Western Frisian: “Poznan”
  • Western Frisian: “Poznań”
  • Western Panjabi: “پوزنان”
  • Wu Chinese: “波兹南”
  • Yiddish: “פויזן”
  • Yue Chinese: “波茲南”
  • “ma tomo Ponsan”
  • “Poznan”
  • “Poznań”

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