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Chodzież

Eastern Europe

Chodziez is a town in west-central Poland with 17,976 inhabitants as of December 2021, seat of Chodziez County in the Greater Poland Voivodeship, in the Chodziez lakelands, a postglacial landscape of lakes and forests nicknamed the Switzerland of Chodziez. First documented in 1403, it received Magdeburg town rights in 1434 from King Wladyslaw II Jagiello, developed as a weaving center and later for pottery and ceramics, suffered under Nazi occupation during the Second World War, and was liberated by Soviet forces in January 1945.

Facts
Population
19,776 1
Founding Year
1403 2
Climate Zone
Temperate 3
Time Zone
UTC+01:00 4
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1. GeoNames: Chodzież
GeoNames geonameid 3101680 (Chodzież), cities500/allCountries bulk dump, matched by primary name + country + coordinates within 25km (w-bbfill-geography6-0926)View the Source
2. Chodzież (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia infobox 'First mentioned' = '1403' on 'Chodzież'View the Source
3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 52.75, 16.75
Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 52.75, 16.75
52.75 16.75 Cfb
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4. GeoNames: Chodzież - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 3101680, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
Quote, cities500 record 3101680, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
52.99505 16.9198 P PPLA3 PL 86 3001 300101 19776 62 Europe/Warsaw
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Chodziez (Wikipedia)
In Group: Cities of Eastern Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregionView the Source
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