Kraków
Kraków is the chief city of Małopolskie Province in the south of Poland. At its core is a beautifully-preserved medieval town on the banks of the River Wisła or Vistula, and it's Poland's top tourist draw.Photo: Andrzej O, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Popular Destinations
Old Town
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The Old City of Kraków, referred to in Polish as Stare Miasto, forms the historical kernel of this vibrant Polish city and is the first target for most travellers to the city for accommodation, eating out, entertainment, and attractions.
Kazimierz
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Kazimierz is a part of Old Town district of Krakow in Poland.
East Kraków
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The eastern part of Kraków consists of several districts, most known of which is Nowa Huta.
Destinations
South Kraków
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Southern part of Kraków consists of six districts. Most interesting are Podgórze and Dębniki, located on the Vistula river bank opposite the Old Town.
West Kraków
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In the early 20th century Kraków grew rapidly, engulfing surrounding neighbourhoods.
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Notable Places in the Area
Royal Archcathedral Basilica of Saints Stanislaus and Wenceslaus
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The Wawel Cathedral, formally titled the Archcathedral Basilica of Saint Stanislaus and Saint Wenceslaus, is a Catholic cathedral situated on Wawel Hill in Kraków, Poland.
Wawel
The Wawel Royal Castle and the Wawel Hill on which it sits constitute the most historically and culturally significant site in Poland.St. Mary's Basilica
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Saint Mary's Basilica is a Brick Gothic church adjacent to the Main Market Square in Kraków, Poland.
Localities in the Area
Zielonki
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Zielonki is a village in southern Poland. It is located in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship and it is also the administrative center of the Gmina Zielonki.
Kraków
- Type: City with 763,000 residents
- Description: capital city of Lesser Poland Voivodeship in southern Poland
- Categories: city with powiat rights, big city, Hanseatic city, capital city, second largest city, tourist destination and locality
- Location: Małopolskie, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.0619° or 50° 3' 43" northLongitude
19.9369° or 19° 56' 13" eastPopulation
763,000Elevation
219 metres (719 feet)IATA airport code
KRKUnited Nations Location Code
PL KRKOpen Location Code
9F2X3W6P+QPOpenStreetMap ID
node 1838666975OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3094802Wikidata ID
Q31487Kraków Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afar: Krakov
- Afrikaans: Krakau
- Afrikaans: Krakow
- Afrikaans: Kraków
- Akan: Kraków
- Albanian: Krakovi
- Albanian: Kraków
- Amharic: ክራካው
- Arabic: Kraków
- Arabic: كاراكاو
- Arabic: كراكاو
- Arabic: كراكوف
- Arabic: كراكوفيا
- Aragonese: Craco
- Aragonese: Cracovia
- Aragonese: Crácow
- Armenian: Կրակով
- Armenian: Քրաքով
- Asturian: Cracovia
- Azerbaijani: Krakov
- Bashkir: Краков
- Basque: Krakobia
- Basque: Krakovia
- Belarusian: Кракаў
- Bengali: ক্রাকুফ
- Bosnian: Krakov
- Bosnian: Krakow
- Bosnian: Kraków
- Breton: Krakovia
- Breton: Krakow
- Breton: Kraków
- Bulgarian: Краков
- Burmese: ကရားကော့မြို့
- Catalan: Cracovia
- Catalan: Cracòvia
- Catalan: Krakow
- Catalan: Kraków
- Cebuano: Kraków
- Central Kurdish: کڕاکۆف
- Chechen: Краков
- Chinese: Kraków
- Chinese: 克拉科夫
- Chinese: 格勒古夫
- Chuvash: Краков
- Crimean Tatar: Krakov
- Crimean Tatar: Krakоv
- Croatian: Krakov
- Croatian: Krakow
- Croatian: Krakóv
- Croatian: Kraków
- Czech: Krakau
- Czech: Krakov
- Czech: Krakow
- Czech: Kraków
- Danish: Krakov
- Danish: Krakow
- Danish: Kraków
- Dimli (individual language): Kraków
- Dutch: Krakau
- Dutch: Krakou
- Dutch: Kraków
- Eastern Mari: Краков
- Egyptian Arabic: كراكوف
- English: Cracovia
- English: Cracovie
- English: Cracow
- English: Krakau
- English: Krakiv
- English: Krakkó
- English: Krako
- English: Krakov
- English: Krakova
- English: Krakow
- English: Krakoy
- English: Krakuv
- English: Kroke
- English: Royal Capital City of Kraków
- English: Royal City of Kraków
- Erzya: Краков ош
- Esperanto: Krakovo
- Esperanto: Kraków
- Esperanto: Kroke
- Estonian: Krakov
- Estonian: Krakow
- Estonian: Kraków
- Extremaduran: Cracovia
- Fijian: Kraków
- Finnish: Krakau
- Finnish: Krakova
- Finnish: Krakow
- Finnish: Kraków
- French: Cracovie
- French: Kracovie
- French: Krakow
- French: Kraków
- French: Ville de Cracovie
- Galician: Cracovia-Kraków
- Galician: Cracovia
- Ganda: Kraków
- Georgian: კრაკოვი
- German: Krakau
- German: Kraków
- Greek: Κρακοβία
- Gujarati: ક્રેકોવ
- Hakka Chinese: Khiet-là-khô-fû
- Hausa: Kraków
- Hebrew: קראקא
- Hebrew: קראקאו
- Hebrew: קראקוב
- Hebrew: קרקא
- Hebrew: קרקאו
- Hebrew: קרקוב
- Hindi: क्रकाउ
- Hungarian: Krakkó
- Hungarian: Kraków
- Icelandic: Krakow
- Icelandic: Kraká
- Icelandic: Kraków
- Ido: Krakow
- Ido: Kraków
- Inari Sami: Krakova
- Indonesian: Krakow
- Indonesian: Kraków
- Interlingua: Cracovia
- Interlingue: Kraków
- Irish: Cracó
- Irish: Kraków
- Italian: Cracovia
- Italian: Kraków
- Japanese: クラカウ
- Japanese: クラクフ
- Japanese: クラコフ
- Japanese: マーウォポルスキエ
- Javanese: Krakau
- Javanese: Krakow
- Javanese: Kraków
- Kalaallisut: Kraków
- Kalmyk: Краков балһсн
- Kannada: ಕ್ರಾಕೊವ್
- Kara-Kalpak: Krakov
- Kashubian: Krakòwò
- Kazakh: Краков
- Kikuyu: Kraków
- Kirghiz: Краков
- Kirghiz: Краков шаары
- Korean: 크라카우
- Korean: 크라코우
- Korean: 크라코프
- Korean: 크라쿠프
- Ladino: Krakovia
- Latin: Cracovia
- Latin: Cracoviae
- Latvian: Krakova
- Latvian: Krakow
- Latvian: Kraków
- Limburgan: Krakau
- Limburgan: Kraków
- Lithuanian: Krokuva
- Lombard: Cracòvia
- Low German: Krakau
- Low German: Kraków
- Lower Sorbian: Krakow
- Lower Sorbian: Kraków
- Luxembourgish: Krakau
- Luxembourgish: Kraków
- Macedonian: Краков
- Malagasy: Kraków
- Malay: Kraków
- Malayalam: ക്രാക്കോവ്
- Maltese: Krakovja
- Maltese: Kraków
- Manx: Cracow
- Manx: Kraków
- Marathi: क्राकूफ
- Marathi: क्राकोव
- Marathi: क्राकोव्ह
- Min Nan Chinese: Kraków
- Mingrelian: კრაკოვი
- Moksha: Кракув
- Mongolian: Краков
- Moroccan Arabic: كراكوڤ
- Narom: Cracau
- Narom: Cracaû
- Narom: Cracovie
- Nauru: Cracow
- Nauru: Krakow
- Nauru: Kraków
- Neapolitan: Carcovia
- Neapolitan: Cracovia
- Northern Frisian: Krakau
- Norwegian: Kraków
- Norwegian Bokmål: Krakau
- Norwegian Bokmål: Krakow
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kraków
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Krakau
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Krakow
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kraków
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Krákow
- Nyanja: Kraków
- Occitan (post 1500): Cracòvia
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Cracow
- Ossetian: Краков
- Panjabi: ਕਰਾਕੋਵ
- Persian: کراکو
- Persian: کراکوف
- Persian: کراکوو
- Piemontese: Cracòvia
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Kraków
- Polish: Kraków
- Polish: Królewskie Miasto Kraków
- Polish: Miasto Kraków
- Polish: Miasto Królewskie Kraków
- Polish: Stołeczne Królewskie Miasto Kraków
- Portuguese: Cracóvia
- Portuguese: Krakow
- Portuguese: Kraków
- Quechua: Cracovia
- Quechua: Kraków
- Romanian: Cracovia
- Romanian: Krakau
- Romanian: Krakow
- Romanian: Kraków
- Romanian: Краковия
- Rundi: Kraków
- Russia Buriat: Краков
- Russian: Краков
- Rusyn: Краков
- Samogitian: Kruokova
- Sardinian: Cracovia
- Sardinian: Cracòvia
- Scots: Krakow
- Scots: Kraków
- Scottish Gaelic: Kraków
- Serbian: Kraków
- Serbian: Краков
- Serbo-Croatian: Krakov
- Serbo-Croatian: Krakow
- Serbo-Croatian: Kraków
- Sicilian: Cracovia
- Sicilian: Kraków
- Silesian: Kraków
- Silesian: Krakůw
- Sinhala: ක්රකෝ
- Slovak: Krakau
- Slovak: Krakov
- Slovak: Kraków
- Slovak: Królewskie Stołeczne Miasto Kraków
- Slovenian: Krakov
- Slovenian: Krakow
- Slovenian: Kraków
- South Azerbaijani: کراکوف
- Southern Sotho: Kraków
- Spanish: Cracovia
- Spanish: Krakau
- Spanish: Krakow
- Spanish: Kraków
- Swahili: Krakov
- Swahili: Kraków
- Swedish: Cracovia
- Swedish: Cracovie
- Swedish: Cracow
- Swedish: Cracowia
- Swedish: Krakau
- Swedish: Krakow
- Swedish: Kraków
- Swedish: Stołeczne królewskie miasto Kraków
- Swiss German: Krakau / Krakow
- Tagalog: Cracovia
- Tagalog: Kraków
- Tajik: Краков
- Tamil: கிராக்கோவ்
- Tamil: க்ரகோவ்
- Tatar: Краков
- Telugu: క్రాకోవ్
- Tetum: Krakóvia
- Thai: Cracow
- Thai: Krakow
- Thai: Kraków
- Thai: กรากุฟ
- Thai: คราคาว
- Thai: คราคุฟ
- Thai: คราคูฟ
- Tok Pisin: Cracow
- Tosk Albanian: Krakau
- Tumbuka: Kraków
- Turkish: Cracovie ilçesi
- Turkish: Cracovie İlçesi
- Turkish: Krakau
- Turkish: Krakov
- Turkish: Krakow
- Turkish: Kraków
- Udmurt: Кракув
- Uighur: Krakow
- Uighur: كراكوۋ
- Ukrainian: Krakiv
- Ukrainian: Kraków
- Ukrainian: Краков
- Ukrainian: Краків
- Upper Sorbian: Krakow
- Upper Sorbian: Kraków
- Urdu: کراکوف
- Uzbek: Krakov
- Uzbek: Krakuv
- Venetian: Cracovia
- Veps: Krakov
- Vietnamese: Krakow
- Vietnamese: Kraków
- Vlax Romani: Kraków
- Volapük: Kraków
- Waray (Philippines): Krakovia
- Waray (Philippines): Krakovya
- Waray (Philippines): Krakow
- Waray (Philippines): Kraków
- Welsh: Kraków
- Western Armenian: Քրաքով
- Western Frisian: Krakau
- Western Panjabi: کراکوف
- Wu Chinese: 克拉克夫
- Xhosa: Kraków
- Yiddish: Kroke
- Yiddish: קראָקע
- Yiddish: קראקא
- Yiddish: קראקע
- Yoruba: Kraków
- Yue Chinese: 克拉科夫
Popular Destinations in Małopolskie
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Kraków. Photo: Taxiarchos228, CC BY 3.0.