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Wadowice
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Wadowice
Total population
17,905
Coordinates49.88°, 19.49°
Demographic figures from Statistics Poland (GUS). Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
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Overview
Wadowice is a town in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in southern Poland, 50 kilometres southwest of Kraków with 17,455 inhabitants (2022), situated on the Skawa river, confluence of Vistula, in the eastern part of Silesian Foothills. Wadowice is known for being the birthplace of Karol Wojtyła, later Pope John Paul II and Godwin von Brumowski, Austria-Hungary’s best flying ace with 35 credited and an additional 8 possible wins in the air.
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Latitude
49.8834
Longitude
19.4925
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Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.
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Official Identifiers
GUS — Statistics Poland
- SIMC code
- 0926921
- Population (Wikidata)
- 17,905
- Wikidata
- Q212856
SIMC place ID via Wikidata P4046
Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • GUS — Statistics Poland — SIMC place ID via Wikidata P4046