Czechowice-Dziedzice

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Czechowice-Dziedzice

Total population

35,261

Coordinates49.91°, 19.01°

Demographic figures from Statistics Poland (GUS). Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Czechowice-Dziedzice, known until 1958 as Czechowice, is a town in Bielsko County, Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland. The town has 35,684 inhabitants, as of December 2021. It lies on the northeastern edge of the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia. It is a large rail junction with four stations, located at the intersection of two major lines – east-west, and north–south.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Walenty Wojciech

German priest

Zygmunt Smalcerz

Polish weightlifter

Łukasz Piszczek

Polish association football player

Zbigniew Pietrzykowski

Polish boxer (1934-2014)

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Zbigniew Rudziński

Polish composer and music educator (1935–2019)

Karol Milik

Polish apostolic administrator

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Andrzej Krzanowski

Polish composer (1951-1990)

Antoni Pająk

Polish politician (1893-1965)

Piotr Beczała

Polish operatic tenor

Witold Szalonek

Polish composer (1927–2001)

Krzysztof Chrapek

Polish footballer

Józef Wróbel

Polish bishop

Józef Świder

Polish composer (1930-2014)

Stachursky

Polish singer

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Ryszard Kraus

Polish footballer (1964-2013)

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Marcin Grzybowski

Polish canoeist

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Silesia

• Kaniów
  2.5 mi away · pop. 3,500
• Bestwinka
  2.9 mi away
• Ligota
  3.4 mi away · pop. 4,454
• Bronów
  4.5 mi away · pop. 996
• Miedźna
  4.9 mi away · pop. 1,745
• Jankowice
  6.3 mi away · pop. 2,672
• Pisarzowice
  6.4 mi away · pop. 4,673
• Rudzica
  6.6 mi away · pop. 3,186
• Hecznarowice
  7.2 mi away · pop. 2,316
• Łazy
  7.9 mi away
• Międzyrzecze
  8.2 mi away · pop. 754
• Bujaków
  9.2 mi away · pop. 2,230

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

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