Gorlice
Gorlice (Горлиці) is a city and an urban municipality ("gmina") in south eastern Poland with around 29,500 inhabitants (2008). It is situated south east of Kraków and south of Tarnów between Jasło and Nowy Sącz in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship (since 1999), previously in Nowy Sącz Voivodeship (1975–1998). It is the capital of Gorlice County.
The city lies between the Ropa and Sękówka river valleys, surrounded by several mountain ranges of the Carpathian Mountains, namely their part called Beskid Niski (Low Beskids) massive. It is located in the heartland of the Doły (Pits), and its average elevation above sea level is 380 m, although there are some more considerable hills located within the confines of the city. The city is nowadays situated in a heavily populated region 14.6 mi from Jasło, 21.2 mi from Nowy Sącz, 25.5 mi from Tarnów, and 62.6 mi from Kraków. Gorlice is known in as Horlytsi, Горлиці; in גאָרליץ as Gorlitz; and in German: as Görlitz.
The city lies between the Ropa and Sękówka river valleys, surrounded by several mountain ranges of the Carpathian Mountains, namely their part called Beskid Niski (Low Beskids) massive. It is located in the heartland of the Doły (Pits), and its average elevation above sea level is 380 m, although there are some more considerable hills located within the confines of the city. The city is nowadays situated in a heavily populated region 14.6 mi from Jasło, 21.2 mi from Nowy Sącz, 25.5 mi from Tarnów, and 62.6 mi from Kraków. Gorlice is known in as Horlytsi, Горлиці; in גאָרליץ as Gorlitz; and in German: as Görlitz.
Map - Gorlice
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Poland has a temperate transitional climate and its territory traverses the Central European Plain, extending from Baltic Sea in the north to Sudeten and Carpathian Mountains in the south. The longest Polish river is the Vistula, and Poland's highest point is Mount Rysy, situated in the Tatra mountain range of the Carpathians. The country is bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west. It also shares maritime boundaries with Denmark and Sweden.
Currency / Language
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| PLN | Polish złoty | zÅ‚ | 2 |
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