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Wadowice

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Wadowice is a town in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in southern Poland, about 50 kilometres southwest of Kraków, with 17,455 inhabitants as of 2022. It sits on the Skawa river near its confluence with the Vistula, in the eastern part of the Silesian Foothills, and is known as the birthplace of Karol Wojtyła, later Pope John Paul II, and of Godwin von Brumowski, Austria-Hungary's leading flying ace of the First World War with 35 credited victories and an additional 8 possible. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Population
17,905 1
Area (sq km)
12.98 1
Population Estimate Year
2021 1
Elevation (m)
450 1
Latitude
49.883333 degrees north 1
Longitude
19.5 degrees east 1
Sources
1. Wadowice (Wikidata)
  • P1082 (population)
    population 17,905 (2021)
  • P625 (coordinate location)
    latitude 49.883333, longitude 19.5
  • P2044 (elevation above sea level)
    elevation 450 m
  • P2046 (area)
    area 12.98 sq km
  • P1082 (population), P585 (point in time)
    population 17905 (2021)
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Wadowice (Wikipedia)
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