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Famous Cities in Poland

Try to guess each city in Poland based on a description.
The cities are roughly ordered in decreasing order of Wikipedia page views and selection rates on geography quiz websites.
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Last updated: July 4, 2024
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City
The capital of Country
Warsaw
The most famous historical ancient capital of the Kingdom of Poland.
Kraków
The refusal to surrender this city was the pretext and spark for World War II.
Gdańsk
The university city's namesake university has produced 9 Nobel Prize winners.
Wrocław
One of the historical ancient capitals of the Greater Poland region and its current capital.
Poznań
The most important historical port in the Pomerania region.
Szczecin
This city, thriving due to the textile industry, experienced a collapse in the 1990s.
Łódź
The center of the largest metropolitan area in the European Union by population.
Katowice
From the end of the 16th century to the end of the 18th century, this city was the location of the royal court and a center of culture and higher education.
Lublin
Known for its most infamous Jewish concentration camp.
Oświęcim
A trade center with Belarus, referred to by Lukashenko as "belonging to Belarus."
Białystok
This World Heritage ancient city is the birthplace of Copernicus.
Toruń
Sharing the capital of the same province with the above city, it is the larger of the two, and NATO headquarters in Poland are located here.
Bydgoszcz
The most famous resort town at the foot of the Tatra Mountains, known as "the winter capital of Poland."
Zakopane
The more important "other end" of the Tri-City.
Gdynia
The largest city in southeastern Poland, whose population has increased by 50% due to Ukrainian refugees.
Rzeszów
The largest city in the Warmia region, where Copernicus personally commanded the defense during conflicts with the Teutonic Knights.
Olsztyn
The city is a shrine to the Virgin Mary and known for Black Madonna painting,
Częstochowa
The historical capital of Upper Silesia, replaced only after World War II.
Opole
The capital of Świętokrzyskie Province, where a massacre of Jews still occurred in 1946.
Kielce
The second oldest city in southeastern Poland, where the bloodiest siege battle between Russia and Austria-Hungary occurred during World War I.
Przemyśl
Its name in Polish means “green mountain”.
Zielona Góra
This city was formed by the merger of two cities, both of whose names deriving from 'white'(biała) in Polish.
Bielsko-Biała
This city was the center of the Mazovia region before Warsaw and considered one of Poland's former capitals.
Płock
The first historical capital of Poland
Gniezno
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