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All municipalities in Poland are governed regardless of their type under the mandatory mayor–council government system. Executive power in a rural gmina is exercised by a wójt, while the homologue in municipalities containing cities or towns is called accordingly either a city mayor (prezydent miasta) or a town mayor (burmistrz), all of them elected by a two-round direct election, while the ...
Kalisz (Polish: ⓘ) is a city in central Poland, and the second-largest city in the Greater Poland Voivodeship, with 97,905 residents (December 2021). [2] [1] It is the capital city of the Kalisz Region.
Kraków [a] (Polish: ⓘ), also spelled as Cracow [b] or Krakow, [8] is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. [9] Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city has a population of 804,237 (2023), with approximately 8 million additional people living within a 100 km (62 mi) radius. [10]
Lublin [a] is the ninth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest city of historical Lesser Poland. It is the capital and the centre of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 336,339 (December 2021). [2] Lublin is the largest Polish city east of the Vistula River, located 153 km (95 mi) southeast of Warsaw.
Warsaw, [a] officially the Capital City of Warsaw, [8] [b] is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at 1.86 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 3.27 million residents, which makes Warsaw the 7th most-populous city in ...
Warsaw has the largest metropolitan area in Poland (3.2 million) Katowice has the second largest metropolitan area in Poland (2.5 million) Kraków has the third largest metropolitan area in Poland (1.4 million)
Łódź [a] is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located 120 km (75 mi) south-west of Warsaw. [8] As of 2023, Łódź has a population of 655,279, [1] making it the country's fourth largest city. Łódź first appears in records in 14th-century.
The city also served as a major base for Grupa Lotos, with the Gdańsk Refinery having been the second-largest in Poland, with a capacity of 210,000 bbl/d (33,000 m 3 /d). [ 151 ] [ 150 ] Gdańsk also hosts the biennial BALTEXPO International Maritime Fair and Conference, the largest fair dedicated to the maritime industry in Poland.