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Żywiec

Eastern Europe

Zywiec is a town on the Sola River in southern Poland, with 31,194 inhabitants as of 2019. It sits within the Silesian Voivodeship, near Zywiec Lake and Zywiec Landscape Park, one of eight protected areas in the voivodeship. Historically and culturally the town is part of the Lesser Poland region and is the capital of the Zywiecczyzna region, which belongs ethnically to the Goral Lands.

Facts
Population
32,132 1
Founding Year
1308 2
Founding Year
1308 2
Elevation Band
Lowland 3
Climate Zone
Continental 4
Time Zone
UTC+01:00 5
Sources
1. GeoNames: Żywiec
GeoNames geonameid 3079855 (Żywiec), cities500/allCountries bulk dump, matched by primary name + country + coordinates within 25km (w-bbfill-geography6-0926)View the Source
2. Żywiec (Wikipedia)
  • Source text, founding-year-range-start: 1308
    Żywiec was first mentioned in a written document in 1308 as a seat of a Catholic parish.
  • Source text, founding-year-range-end: 1308
    Żywiec was first mentioned in a written document in 1308 as a seat of a Catholic parish.
  • Source text, founding-year: 1308
    Żywiec was first mentioned in a written document in 1308 as a seat of a Catholic parish.
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3. Open-Meteo: Open-Meteo Elevation API: elevation at Żywiec coordinates
Open-MeteoJSON elevation
Quote, JSON elevation
"elevation": [ 351.0 ]
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4. 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 49.75, 19.25
Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 49.75, 19.25
49.75 19.25 Dfb
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5. GeoNames: Żywiec - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 3079855, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
Quote, cities500 record 3079855, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
49.68529 19.19243 P PPLA3 PL 83 2417 241701 32132 347 Europe/Warsaw
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Zywiec (Wikipedia)
In Group: Cities of Eastern Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregionView the Source
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