Bydgoszcz | |
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Downtown with Freedom Square Banks of the Brda River in the Old Town | |
 Flag  Coat of arms  Brandmark | |
| Nickname: | |
  Bydgoszcz | |
| Coordinates: 53°7′19″N 18°00′01″E / 53.12194°N 18.00028°E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Kuyavian-Pomeranian |
| County | city county |
| Established | before 1238 |
| City rights | 1346 |
| Government | |
| • Body | Bydgoszcz City Council |
| • City mayor | Rafał Bruski (PO) |
| • City Council Chairperson | Monika Matowska (PO) |
| Area | |
• Total | 176 km2 (68 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 60 m (200 ft) |
| Population (31 December 2022) | |
• Total | 330,038  (8th)[5] |
| • Density | 1,875/km2 (4,860/sq mi) |
| Demonym(s) | bydgoszczanin (male) bydgoszczanka (female) (pl) |
| GDP | |
| • Bydgoszcz–Toruń metropolitan area | €10.871 billion (2020) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 85-001 to 85–915 |
| Area code | (+48) 52 |
| Car plates | CB |
| Primary airport | Bydgoszcz Ignacy Jan Paderewski Airport |
| Highways |   |
| Website | www |
Bydgoszcz[a] is a city in northern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Kuyavia. Straddling the confluence of the Vistula River and its left-bank tributary, the Brda, the strategic location of Bydgoszcz has made it an inland port and a vital centre for trade and transportation. With a city population of 339,053 as of December 2021,[5] Bydgoszcz is the eighth-largest city in Poland. Today, it is the seat of Bydgoszcz County and one of the two capitals of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship as a seat of its centrally appointed governor, a voivode.
Bydgoszcz metropolitan area comprising the city and several adjacent communities is inhabited by half a million people, and forms a part of an extended polycentric Bydgoszcz-Toruń metropolitan area with the population of approximately 0.8 million inhabitants. Since the Middle Ages, Bydgoszcz served as a royal city of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland until partitions and experienced the industrialisation period bolstered by the construction of the Bydgoszcz Canal in the late 18th century. Its academic and cultural landscape is shaped by Casimir the Great University, Bydgoszcz University of Science and Technology, the Medical College of Nicolaus Copernicus University, Feliks Nowowiejski Music Academy, the Pomeranian Philharmonic, and the Opera Nova. Bydgoszcz also plays a role of the biggest centre of NATO headquarters in Poland.[13][14] The city is served by an international airport and is a member of Eurocities.
Bydgoszcz is an architecturally rich city, with gothic, neo-gothic, neo-baroque, neoclassicist, modernist and Art Nouveau styles present, for which, combined with extensive green spaces, it has earned the nickname Little Berlin.[1] The notable granaries on Mill Island and along the riverside belong to one of the most recognized timber-framed landmarks in Poland.[15] In 2023, the city entered the UNESCO Creative Cities Network and was named UNESCO City of Music.[16]
- ^ a b Team, 3W Design. "Camerimage – International Film Festival". www.camerimage.pl. Archived from the original on 2017-08-03. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
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- ^ "ul. Cieszkowskiego, Bydgoszcz". inyourpocket.com. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
- ^ "Berlin i "klein Berlin" na jednej pocztówce. Dzieła tych samych architektów w Niemczech i Bydgoszczy". wyborcza.pl. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
- ^ a b "Local Data Bank". Statistics Poland. Retrieved 2022-06-02. Data for territorial unit 0461011.
- ^ "Gross domestic product (GDP) at current market prices by NUTS 3 regions". ec.europa.eu.
- ^ "Bydgoszcz". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 2020-07-27.
- ^ "Bydgoszcz". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th ed.). HarperCollins. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
- ^ "Bydgoszcz". Collins English Dictionary. HarperCollins. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
- ^ "Bydgoszcz". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
- ^ Wiesław Wydra, Chrestomatia staropolska. Teksty do roku 1543. Wrocław. Ossolineum. 1984. ISBN 83-04-01568-4.
- ^ Brombergum attested e.g. in: [Anon.]: Geographica Globi Terraquei Synopsis [...]. Trnava 1745, p. 278; Laur. Mizlerus de Kolof: Historiarum Poloniae et Magni Ducatus Lithuaniae Scriptorum [...] Collectio Magna [...]. Vol. 2. Warsaw 1769, p. 456; Fran. Math. Stan. Val. Hoefft: De Sanguinis Transfusione. Ph.D. thesis, Berlin 1819, p. 47.
- ^ "Bydgoszcz - Polska stolica NATO". miasta.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 1 July 2024.
- ^ "Bydgoszcz umacnia swą pozycję w strukturach NATO". bydgoszcz.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 1 July 2024.
- ^ "Granaries on the Brda – Bydgoszcz, Official Tourism Website, visitbydgoszcz.pl". www.visitbydgoszcz.pl. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
- ^ "55 new cities join the UNESCO Creative Cities Network on World Cities Day". unesco.org. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
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