Szczyrk
Szczyrk is a winter sports resort in the Silesian Voivodeship of southern Poland. The town is at an elevation of 500-600 m in the Beskids mountains, and the highest local peak is Skrzyczne at 1257 m. In 2020 the population was 5700.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 5,500 residents
- Description: city and urban gmina in the Lesser Poland part of the Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
- Neighbors: Bielsko-Biała and Wisła
Places of Interest
Highlights include Skalite and Saint James church in Szczyrk.
Skalite
Stadium
Photo: Int-media-bielsko, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Skocznia Skalite im. Beskidzkich Olimpijczyków is a complex of three Polish ski jumping hills located in Szczyrk – on the northern slope of the Skalite mountain, at an altitude of 620 m.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Buczkowice and Godziszka.
Buczkowice
Village
Photo: Kokorik, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Buczkowice is a village in Bielsko County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Buczkowice. It lies approximately 12 km south of Bielsko-Biała and 59 km south of the regional capital Katowice. Buczkowice is situated 3½ km northeast of Szczyrk.
Godziszka
Village
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Godziszka is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Buczkowice, within Bielsko County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 2 km south-east of Buczkowice, 14 km south of Bielsko-Biała, and 60 km south of the regional capital Katowice. Godziszka is situated 3½ km east of Szczyrk.
Meszna
Village
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Meszna is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wilkowice, within Bielsko County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 3 km south-west of Wilkowice, 10 km south of Bielsko-Biała, and 56 km south of the regional capital Katowice. Meszna is situated 4½ km northeast of Szczyrk.
Szczyrk
- Categories: urban municipality of Poland and locality
- Location: Bielsko-Biała County, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
49.7166° or 49° 42′ 60″ northLongitude
19.0255° or 19° 1′ 32″ eastPopulation
5,500Elevation
501 metres (1,644 feet)United Nations Location Code
PL ZYKOpen location code
8FXXP28G+J5OpenStreetMap ID
node 280832769OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Waray—“Szczyrk” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Szczyrk”
- Belarusian: “Шчырк”
- Bulgarian: “Шчирк”
- Catalan: “Szczyrk”
- Cebuano: “Szczyrk”
- Chechen: “Щирк”
- Chinese: “Szczyrk”
- Chinese: “什切尔克”
- Chinese: “什切爾克”
- Czech: “Szczyrk”
- Danish: “Szczyrk”
- Dutch: “Szczyrk”
- Esperanto: “Szczyrk”
- Estonian: “Szczyrk”
- Finnish: “Szczyrk”
- French: “Szczyrk”
- German: “Schirk”
- German: “Szczyrk”
- Greek: “Στσιρκ”
- Hebrew: “שצ’ירק”
- Italian: “Szczyrk”
- Japanese: “シチィルク”
- Javanese: “Szczyrk”
- Latvian: “Ščirka”
- Lithuanian: “Ščirkas”
- Macedonian: “Шчирк”
- Malay: “Szczyrk”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Szczyrk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Szczyrk”
- Norwegian: “Szczyrk”
- Persian: “شچرک”
- Polish: “Szczyrk”
- Portuguese: “Szczyrk”
- Romanian: “Szczyrk”
- Russian: “Щирк”
- Serbian: “Шчирк”
- Silesian: “Szczyrk”
- Slovak: “Szczyrk”
- Slovenian: “Szczyrk”
- South Azerbaijani: “شچرک”
- Spanish: “Szczyrk”
- Swedish: “Szczyrk”
- Tatar: “Шчырк”
- Turkish: “Szczyrk”
- Ukrainian: “Щирк”
- Vietnamese: “Szczyrk”
- Waray (Philippines): “Szczyrk”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Szczyrk”. Photo: D T G, CC BY-SA 3.0.