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Sosnowiec

Sosnowiec is a city in the of southern Poland, with a population of 189,178 in 2022. It's industrial, and part of the GZM metropolis centred on 10 km west.
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  • Type: City with 194,000 residents
  • Description: city in the Dąbrowa Basin (the Lesser Poland part of the Silesian Voivodeship), Poland
  • Also known as: “Sosnovets”, “Sosnovice”, “Sosnovits”, “Sosnovitz”, “Sosnovitze”, “Sosnovyets”, “Sosnowez”, and “Sossnowitz”
  • Neighbors: and
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Sosnowiec Główny railway station and Sielecki Castle.

Railway station
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is a major railway stations in Sosnowiec, , . The station is located about 9 km to the East of .

Photo: Mkos, CC BY-SA 3.0 pl.
is a castle in the city of Sosnowiec in southern , located in the Sielc district. The castle is located on the left bank of the River. It was built in the 17th century and it is the oldest building in the city.

Stadium
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The Sosnowiec People's Stadium is a multi-use in Sosnowiec, . It is currently used mostly for football matches and serves as the training ground of Zagłębie Sosnowiec. The stadium has a capacity of 7,500 people.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Będzin and Czeladź.

Town
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is a city in the Dąbrowa Basin, in southern . It lies in the Silesian Highlands, on the Czarna Przemsza River. Even though part of , belongs to historic Lesser Poland, and it is one of the oldest towns of this region.

Town
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is a town in Zagłębie Dąbrowskie, in southern Poland, near and Sosnowiec. Located in the Silesian Highlands, on the river, it is the oldest urban center of Zagłębie Dąbrowskie.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Sosnowiec

Latitude
50.2781° or 50° 16′ 41″ north
Longitude
19.1343° or 19° 8′ 4″ east
Population
194,000
Elevation
256 metres (840 feet)
United Nations Location Code
PL SWC
Open location code
9F2X74HM+6P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 190817334
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3085128
Wiki­data ID
Q105060
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Sosnowiec” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Sosnowiec”
  • Arabic: “سوسنوفييتس”
  • Arabic: “سوسنوفييتش”
  • Armenian: “Սոսնովեց”
  • Asturian: “Sosnowiec”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sosnoves”
  • Basque: “Sosnowiec”
  • Belarusian: “Горад Сасновец”
  • Belarusian: “Сасновец”
  • Bengali: “সসনোয়েক”
  • Breton: “Sosnowiec”
  • Bulgarian: “Сосновец”
  • Catalan: “Sosnowiec”
  • Cebuano: “Sosnowiec”
  • Chechen: “Сосновец”
  • Chinese: “Sosnowiec”
  • Chinese: “索斯诺维茨”
  • Chinese: “索斯諾維茨”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Sosnovets”
  • Croatian: “Sosnowiec”
  • Czech: “Sosnovec”
  • Czech: “Sosnowiec”
  • Czech: “Sosnowitz”
  • Danish: “Sosnowiec”
  • Dutch: “Sosnowiec”
  • Dutch: “Sosnowitz”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سوسنوفييتس”
  • Esperanto: “Sosnowiec”
  • Estonian: “Sosnowiec”
  • Finnish: “Sosnowiec”
  • French: “Sosnowice”
  • French: “Sosnowiec”
  • German: “Sosnowice”
  • German: “Sosnowiec”
  • German: “Sosnowitz”
  • Greek: “Σοσνόβιετς”
  • Gujarati: “સોસ્નોવિએક”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sosnowiec”
  • Hebrew: “Sosnovits”
  • Hebrew: “סוסנוביץ”
  • Hindi: “सोसनोविएक”
  • Hungarian: “Sosnowiec”
  • Ido: “Sosnowiec”
  • Indonesian: “Sosnowiec”
  • Indonesian: “Sosnowitz”
  • Irish: “Sosnowiec”
  • Italian: “Sosnowiec”
  • Japanese: “ソスノウィエツ”
  • Japanese: “ソスノヴィエツ”
  • Japanese: “ソスノビエツ”
  • Javanese: “Sosnowiec”
  • Kannada: “ಸೊಸ್ನೋನಿಕ್”
  • Kashubian: “Sosnowiec”
  • Korean: “소스노비에츠”
  • Latvian: “Sosnoveca”
  • Latvian: “Sosnowiec”
  • Lithuanian: “Sosnovecas”
  • Low German: “Sosnowiec”
  • Macedonian: “Сосновјец”
  • Malay: “Sosnowiec”
  • Marathi: “सोस्नोव्हिएक”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sosnowiec”
  • Nauru: “Sosnowiec”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sosnowiec”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sosnowiec”
  • Norwegian: “Sosnowiec”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sosnowiec”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sosnowiec”
  • Ossetian: “Сосновец”
  • Persian: “ساسنوویتس”
  • Persian: “سسنویتس”
  • Persian: “سوسنوویتس”
  • Polish: “Sosnowice”
  • Polish: “Sosnowiec”
  • Portuguese: “Sosnowiec”
  • Quechua: “Sosnowiec”
  • Romanian: “Sosnowiec”
  • Russian: “Сосновец”
  • Russian: “Сосновице”
  • Scots: “Sosnowiec”
  • Serbian: “Сосновјец”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sosnowiec”
  • Sicilian: “Sosnowiec”
  • Silesian: “Sosnowjec”
  • Sinhala: “සොස්නොවියක්”
  • Slovak: “Powiat Sosnowiec”
  • Slovak: “Sosnowiec”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ساسنوویتس”
  • Spanish: “Sosnowiec”
  • Swedish: “Sosnowiec”
  • Tamil: “சொஸ்னோவிஎக்”
  • Tatar: “Сосноветс”
  • Tatar: “Сосновец”
  • Telugu: “సొస్నోవియెక్”
  • Thai: “ซอสนอวีแยตส์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Sosnowiec”
  • Turkish: “Sosnowiec ilçesi”
  • Turkish: “Sosnowiec İlçesi”
  • Turkish: “Sosnowiec”
  • Udmurt: “Сосновец”
  • Ukrainian: “Сосновець”
  • Urdu: “سوسنووییک”
  • Uzbek: “Sosnovets”
  • Venetian: “Sosnowiec”
  • Vietnamese: “Sosnowiec”
  • Volapük: “Sosnowiec”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sosnowiec”
  • Welsh: “Sosnowiec”
  • Wu Chinese: “索斯诺维茨”
  • Yiddish: “Sosnovets”
  • Yiddish: “סאסנאוויץ”
  • Yiddish: “סאסנאווצע”
  • Yue Chinese: “索斯諾維耶茨”
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