Kraków

Kraków (Pols pronunciation: [ˈkrakuf] ( listen)), awso Cracow, or Krakow, is the seicond lairgest and ane o the auldest ceeties in Poland. Situatit on the Vistula River (Pols: Wisła) in the Lesser Poland region, the ceety dates back tae the 7t century.^[1] Kraków haes traditionally been ane o the leadin centres o Pols academic, cultural an airtistic life an is one o Poland's maist important economic centres. It wis the caipital o Poland frae 1038 tae 1596; the caipital o the Grand Duchy o Kraków frae 1846 tae 1918; an the caipital o Kraków Voivodeship frae the 14t century tae 1999. It is nou the caipital o the Lesser Poland Voivodeship.

Kraków Cracow
Main Mercat Square, Wawel Castle, Barbican, St. Mary's Basilica, St. Peter an Paul Kirk, Collegium Maius
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Kraków
Coordinates: 50°3′41″N 19°56′18″E
Kintra	Poland
Voivodeship	Lesser Poland
Coonty	Kraków Coonty
Ceety richts	5 Juin 1257
Govrenment
• Mayor	Aleksander Miszalski
• First Deputy of the Mayor	Stanisław Mazur
Area
• City	327 km2 (126 sq mi)
Elevation	219 m (719 ft)
Population  (31 December 2011)
• City	759,137
• Density	2,300/km2 (6,000/sq mi)
• Metro	1,395,893
Demonym(s)	Cracovian
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	30-024 to 31–962
Area code(s)	+48 12
Website	www.krakow.pl

Internaitional relations

Relatit page: Leet o twin touns an sister ceeties in Poland

Twin touns — Sister ceeties

Kraków is twinned, or maintains close relations, wi mair nor 30 ceeties aroond the warld:^[2]

Bordeaux, Fraunce (syne 1993)[2] Bratislava, Slovakie [2][3] Budapest, Hungary (syne 2005)[2] Cambridge, Mass., USA (syne 1989)[4] Curitiba, Brazil (syne 1993)[2] Cusco, Peru [2][5] Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (syne 1995) [6] Fes, Morocco (syne 2004)[2] Florence, Italy (syne 1992)[2] Frankfurt, Germany (syne 1991)[2][7] Göteborg, Swaden (syne 1990)[2]

Grozny, Roushie (syne 1997) [8] Innsbruck in Austrick (syne 1998)[2] Kiev, Ukraine (syne 1993)[2] Lahore, Pakistan La Serena, Chile (syne 1995)[2] Leipzig, Germany (syne 1995)[2][9] Leuven, Belgium (syne 1991)[2] Lviv, Ukraine (syne 1995)[2] Milan, Italy (syne 2003)[2][10] Nuremberg, Germany (syne 1991)[2] Orléans, Fraunce (syne 1992)[2]

Pécs, Hungary (syne 1998)[2] Rochester, NY, USA (syne 1973)[2] Quito, Ecuador [2] St Petersburg, Roushie (syne 2006)[2] San Francisco, CA, USA (syne 2009)[2] Seville, Spain (syne 2002)[2] Solothurn, Swisserland (syne 1990)[2] Tbilisi, Georgie[2] Veliko Turnovo, Bulgarie (syne 1975)[2] Vilnius, Lithuanie[2] Zagreb, Croatie (syne 1975)[2][11][12]