Twelve Polish Towns and Cities from Słupsk to Wadowice in Order of Recorded Latitude, North to South

Słupsk has a recorded latitude of 54.4667 north, the most northerly of the twelve. The entity page places it on the Słupia River in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, in the historical region of Pomerania, and describes it as a city with powiat (county) rights that is also the administrative seat of Słupsk County.

Stargard has a recorded latitude of 53.3387 north. The entity page places it in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship on the Ina River, as the seat of Stargard County and the second largest city in the Szczecin agglomeration, and names St. Mary's Church and the defensive walls among its listed Historic Monuments of Poland.

Pułtusk has a recorded latitude of 52.7167 north. The entity page places it on the Narew river in the Masovian Voivodeship, seventy kilometers north of Warsaw, and records its town rights from Duke Siemowit I of Masovia in 1257, a Napoleonic-era battle in 1806 and a meteorite shower in 1868.

Swarzędz has a recorded latitude of 52.4104 north. The entity page places it in the Greater Poland Voivodeship within the Poznań metropolitan area, calls it a railway hub and commercial center, and records its long history of furniture manufacturing and carpentry.

Skierniewice has a recorded latitude of 51.9528 north. The entity page places it in the Łódź Voivodeship as capital of Skierniewice County, on the Warsaw-Vienna railway line roughly midway between Łódź and Warsaw, and records that it was a residence of Poland's Roman Catholic Primates in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Rawicz has a recorded latitude of 51.6092 north. The entity page places it in the Greater Poland Voivodeship as capital of Rawicz County, on the trade route between Poznań and Wrocław, and records its founding by Adam Olbracht Przyjemski as a refuge for Protestants and its later role as a weaving center.

Chełm has a recorded latitude of 51.1333 north. The entity page places it in the Lublin Voivodeship in eastern Poland, about 25 kilometers from the border with Ukraine, and records that it was capital of the Kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia in the third quarter of the 13th century and that roughly 15 kilometers of underground chalk tunnels lie beneath it.

Świdnica has a recorded latitude of 50.8438 north. The entity page places it on the Bystrzyca River in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, as seat of Świdnica County, and records that it became part of the Wałbrzych agglomeration on 23 January 2014.

Częstochowa has a recorded latitude of 50.8096 north. The entity page places it on the Warta river in the Krakow-Częstochowa Upland, within the Silesian Voivodeship but historically part of Lesser Poland, and calls it the largest economic, cultural and administrative center in the northern part of its voivodeship.

Wałbrzych has a recorded latitude of 50.7667 north. The entity page places it in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship as seat of Wałbrzych County, roughly thirty kilometers from the Czech border, and records its history as a major coal mining center and Książ Castle as the largest castle in Lower Silesia.

Sosnowiec has a recorded latitude of 50.3 north. The entity page describes it as an industrial city with county rights in the Dąbrowa Basin of southern Poland, within the Silesian Voivodeship and in the eastern part of the Upper Silesian Industrial Region, as part of the Katowice urban area.

Wadowice has a recorded latitude of 49.8833 north, the most southerly of the twelve. The entity page places it in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship about 50 kilometres southwest of Kraków, on the Skawa river near its confluence with the Vistula, and records it as the birthplace of Karol Wojtyła, later Pope John Paul II.