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Szczecin

Szczecin, is a maritime port city and the capital of in . Many visitors to Poland are also unaware of Szczecin's architectural attractiveness, as the large parts of the city were designed by Baron Haussmann, the same man who designed the boulevards of .
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  • Type: City with 388,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
  • Also known as: “Stettin”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Szczecin Philharmonic and Szczecin Główny railway station.

Theater building
Photo: DrKssn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, officially Mieczysław Karłowicz Philharmonic, founded in 1948, is a philharmonic of the city of Szczecin, Poland. In 2015, the new building of the philharmonic was awarded the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture.

Railway station
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
Szczecin Główny is the principal railway station of the city of Szczecin, in the , . The station opened on 15 August 1843 and is located on the Berlin-Szczecin railway, Wrocław–Szczecin railway, Poznań–Szczecin railway, Bützow-Szczecin railway and Szczecin-Trzebież Szczeciński railway.

Church
Photo: Kapitel, CC BY-SA 3.0 pl.
The St. James the Apostle Archcathedral Basilica is a Gothic cathedral located in Szczecin, and seat of the Archdiocese of Szczecin-Kamień. Built in the 12th-14th centuries, it is the second tallest church in Poland, the largest church in the region of , and one of the most distinctive landmarks of the Szczecin Old Town.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Centrum and Mierzyn.

Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, GFDL.
is a municipal neighbourhood of the city of Szczecin, , situated on the left bank of , in . It borders to the west, to the north, Stare Miasto to the east, and Nowe Miasto to the south.

Village
Photo: Marcin Otorowski, CC BY-SA 2.5.
is a suburb of Szczecin, which is one of the most populous in Poland. It is located in the municipality of Gmina Dobra, within , , in north-western Poland, close to the border.

Neighborhood
is a part of the city of Szczecin, situated on the left bank of Oder river, north-west of the and . The locale's designation in the Polish language derives from the Slavic given name Niemir.

Szczecin

Latitude
53.4302° or 53° 25′ 49″ north
Longitude
14.551° or 14° 33′ 4″ east
Population
388,000
Elevation
149 metres (489 feet)
IATA airport code
SZZ
United Nations Location Code
PL SZZ
Open location code
9F5PCHJ2+39
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26553042
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3083829
Wiki­data ID
Q393
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Szczecin” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Szczecin”
  • Albanian: “Stetini”
  • Albanian: “Szczecin”
  • Amharic: “ሽጨቺን”
  • Arabic: “شتتين”
  • Arabic: “شتشيتشين”
  • Arabic: “شتيتين”
  • Armenian: “Շեցին”
  • Armenian: “Շչեցին”
  • Asturian: “Szczecin”
  • Aymara: “Stettin”
  • Aymara: “Szczecin”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şçeçin”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şetsin”
  • Balinese: “Szczecin”
  • Basque: “Szczecin”
  • Belarusian: “Штэтын”
  • Belarusian: “Штэцін”
  • Belarusian: “Шчэцін”
  • Bengali: “স্টাজিন”
  • Bosnian: “Szczecin”
  • Breton: “Szczecin”
  • Bulgarian: “Шчечин”
  • Catalan: “Stettin”
  • Catalan: “Szczecin”
  • Cebuano: “Szczecin”
  • Central Kurdish: “شچێچین”
  • Chechen: “Щецин”
  • Chinese: “Szczecin”
  • Chinese: “什切青”
  • Chinese: “斯塞新”
  • Chinese: “舒車前”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Şçetsin”
  • Croatian: “Szczecin”
  • Czech: “Štětín”
  • Czech: “Szczecin”
  • Danish: “Stettin”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Şçetsin”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Szczecin”
  • Dutch: “Szczecin”
  • Eastern Mari: “Щецин”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شتتين”
  • Erzya: “Щецин ош”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝtetino”
  • Esperanto: “Szczecin”
  • Estonian: “Stettin”
  • Estonian: “Szczecin”
  • Faroese: “Stettin”
  • Faroese: “Szczecin”
  • Finnish: “Stettin”
  • Finnish: “Szczecin”
  • French: “Stettin”
  • French: “Szczecin”
  • French: “Sztetëno”
  • Galician: “Szczecin”
  • Georgian: “შჩეცინი”
  • German: “Stettin”
  • German: “Szczecin”
  • Greek: “Στσέτσιν”
  • Gujarati: “શ્ટેચિન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sṳ̍p-chhiet-chhiâng”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Szczecin”
  • Hebrew: “שצ’צ’ין”
  • Hindi: “श्टेटीन”
  • Hungarian: “Szczecin”
  • Icelandic: “Szczecin”
  • Ido: “Szczecin”
  • Iloko: “Szczecin”
  • Indonesian: “Stettin”
  • Indonesian: “Szczecin”
  • Irish: “Szczecin”
  • Italian: “Stettino”
  • Italian: “Szczecin”
  • Japanese: “シュチェチン”
  • Japanese: “シュテチン”
  • Javanese: “Szczecin”
  • Kalaallisut: “Szczecin”
  • Kannada: “ಶ್ಚೆಟ್ಸಿನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಟೆಟ್ಟಿನ್”
  • Kashubian: “Szczecëno”
  • Kashubian: “Szczëtno”
  • Kazakh: “Щецин”
  • Korean: “슈체친”
  • Latin: “Stettinum”
  • Latvian: “Ščecina”
  • Limburgan: “Stettin”
  • Lithuanian: “Ščecinas”
  • Lombard: “Stetin”
  • Low German: “Stettin”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Szczecin”
  • Luxembourgish: “Stettin”
  • Luxembourgish: “Szczecin”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Szczecin”
  • Macedonian: “Шчеќин”
  • Malay: “Szczecin”
  • Maltese: “Szczecin”
  • Manx: “Szczecin”
  • Maori: “Szczecin”
  • Marathi: “श्टेचिन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Szczecin”
  • Mingrelian: “შჩეჩინი”
  • Mingrelian: “შჩეცინი”
  • Moksha: “Щечин”
  • Mongolian: “Шчецин”
  • Narom: “Estettin”
  • Nauru: “Szczecin”
  • Northern Frisian: “Stettin”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Stettin”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Szczecin”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Szczecin”
  • Norwegian: “Szczecin”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Szczecin”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Stettin”
  • Ossetian: “Щецин”
  • Persian: “شچچین”
  • Polish: “Szczecin”
  • Portuguese: “Estetino”
  • Pushto: “شچچین”
  • Pushto: “شچېچېن”
  • Quechua: “Stettin”
  • Quechua: “Szczecin”
  • Romanian: “Szczecin”
  • Russian: “Штеттин”
  • Russian: “Щецин”
  • Rusyn: “Щецин”
  • Sardinian: “Szczecin”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Szczecin”
  • Scots: “Szczecin”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Szczecin”
  • Serbian: “Ščećin”
  • Serbian: “Štetin”
  • Serbian: “Штетин”
  • Serbian: “Шчећин”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Szczecin”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Шчећин”
  • Silesian: “Sztetin”
  • Sinhala: “සෙසින්”
  • Slovak: “Štetín”
  • Slovenian: “Szczecin”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شچچین”
  • Spanish: “Estetino, Polonia”
  • Spanish: “Estetino”
  • Spanish: “Stettin”
  • Spanish: “Szczecin”
  • Swahili: “Szczecin”
  • Swedish: “Stettin.”
  • Swedish: “Stettin”
  • Swedish: “Szczecin”
  • Swiss German: “Stettin”
  • Tagalog: “Szczecin”
  • Tajik: “Штеттин”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்செசின்”
  • Tatar: “Щецин”
  • Telugu: “స్జేచిన్”
  • Tetum: “Szczecin”
  • Thai: “ชแชชิน”
  • Thai: “ชแชตชิน”
  • Tok Pisin: “Setesin”
  • Tok Pisin: “Szczecin”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Stettin”
  • Turkish: “Şetsin”
  • Turkish: “Stettin”
  • Turkish: “Szczecin ilçesi”
  • Turkish: “Szczecin İlçesi”
  • Turkish: “Szczecin”
  • Udmurt: “Шӵечин”
  • Uighur: “Shchétsin”
  • Ukrainian: “Щецин”
  • Ukrainian: “Щецін”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Šćećin”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Stettin”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Szczecin”
  • Urdu: “شٹیچین”
  • Uzbek: “Shchetsin”
  • Venetian: “Stetin”
  • Veps: “Ščecin”
  • Vietnamese: “Szczecin”
  • Volapük: “Szczecin”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Szczecin”
  • Welsh: “Szczecin”
  • Western Frisian: “Stettin”
  • Western Panjabi: “شچیسن”
  • Western Panjabi: “ششیچن”
  • Wu Chinese: “什切青”
  • Yiddish: “שטעטין”
  • Yue Chinese: “舒車前”
  • “ma tomo Sesin”
  • “Szczecin”
  • “Шчецин”

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