Okrzeszyn, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

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Okrzeszyn
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Okrzeszyn
Coordinates: 50°37′N16°02′E / 50.617°N 16.033°E / 50.617; 16.033 Coordinates: 50°37′N16°02′E / 50.617°N 16.033°E / 50.617; 16.033
Country Flag of Poland.svg  Poland
Voivodeship Lower Silesian
County Kamienna Góra
Gmina Lubawka
Population
  Total 278

Okrzeszyn [ɔˈkʂɛʂɨn] (German : Albendorf) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Lubawka, within Kamienna Góra County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, near the border with the Czech Republic. [1]

German language West Germanic language

German is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, South Tyrol (Italy), the German-speaking Community of Belgium, and Liechtenstein. It is also one of the three official languages of Luxembourg and a co-official language in the Opole Voivodeship in Poland. The languages which are most similar to German are the other members of the West Germanic language branch: Afrikaans, Dutch, English, the Frisian languages, Low German/Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, and Yiddish. There are also strong similarities in vocabulary with Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, although those belong to the North Germanic group. German is the second most widely spoken Germanic language, after English.

Gmina Lubawka is an urban-rural gmina in Kamienna Góra County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Its seat is the town of Lubawka, which lies approximately 14 kilometres (9 mi) south of Kamienna Góra, and 87 kilometres (54 mi) south-west of the regional capital Wrocław.

Kamienna Góra County County in Lower Silesian, Poland

Kamienna Góra County is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, south-western Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. The county covers an area of 396.1 square kilometres (152.9 sq mi). Its administrative seat is the town of Kamienna Góra; the only other town in the county is Lubawka.

It lies approximately 10 kilometres (6 mi) south of Lubawka, 23 kilometres (14 mi) south of Kamienna Góra, and 91 kilometres (57 mi) south-west of the regional capital Wrocław.

Lubawka Place in Lower Silesian, Poland

Lubawka is a town in Poland, in Lower Silesia Voivodship, in Kamienna Góra County. It is the administrative seat of Gmina Lubawka. It lies in the Sudetes near to the border with the Czech Republic on the way across the Lubawka pass (516m) between the Karkonosze and Krucze Mountains. Two small rivers, the Bóbr and Czarnuszka, run through the town, which has 6,529 inhabitants (2006).

Wrocław City in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Wrocław is a city in western Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the River Oder in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Europe, roughly 350 kilometres (220 mi) from the Baltic Sea to the north and 40 kilometres (25 mi) from the Sudeten Mountains to the south. The population of Wrocław in 2018 was 639,258, making it the fourth-largest city in Poland and the main city of the Wrocław agglomeration.

The village has a population of 278.

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