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Oświęcim

town in the Lesser Poland province, Poland
Place urban_municipality_of_poland Q7342

Facts

28 properties

Identity

Instance of
urban municipality of Poland
Inception
1101[25]
Official website
oswiecim.pl[26]
Native label
Oświęcim
Official name
Oświęcim, Auschwitz[38]

Location

Country
Poland[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 50.038°, 19.221°
Continent
Europe[7]
Located in or next to body of water
Vistula, Soła[4][5]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Oświęcim County, Bielitz[2]
Shares border with
Gmina Libiąż, Gmina Chełmek, Gmina Oświęcim[8][9][10]

Population and size

Area
+30.3
Elevation above sea level
+230
Female population
+19489[39]
Male population
+17467[40]
Population
+39057, +36956[27][28]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 39,057 · 36,956 GeoNames 34,170 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Local dialing code
33[24]
Postal code
32-600, 32-601, 32-603, 32-606, 32-610[18][19][20][21][22]
More facts +10
Capital of
Oświęcim County, Gmina Oświęcim, Duchy of Oświęcim[36][37]
Coat of arms
Herb Oświęcimia[17]
Described by source
Vlastenský slovník historický, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), The American Cyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[30][31][32][33][34][35]
Different from
Oświęcim, Greater Poland Voivodeship
Head of government
Janusz Chwierut[6]
Licence plate code
KOS[23]
P14541
3xktS3
P14586
87533
Time of earliest written record
1117[29]
Twinned administrative body
Arezzo, Kerpen, Catania, Sambir, Latina, Breisach[11][12][13][14][15][16]
🏷️ Also known as
en Osvyenchim en Ushpitzin en Освенцим en Oświęcim en אָשפּיצין en אושויץ (פולין)‏ en Auschwitz en Aushvits en Aushvitsa en Aušvica en Oshpetzin en Oshpitsin en Oshvitsin en Oshvyentsim en Osvětim en Osvienčim ar أشفنشم cs Auschwitz cs Osvěnčín cs Oświęcim
🔖 Identifiers · 50
VIAF cluster ID
148939114
Library of Congress authority ID
n81146701
GND ID
4068979-7
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Oświęcim - Układ urbanistyczny AL05.JPG ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
15074
BHCL UUID
0460f79b-6f57-4d02-b9e2-e2c0fff9d7f5, e06079b5-fbc8-4c4a-ad37-de451c3c2c1a, 44a7c390-8df8-405b-9c90-17f520b11014, e394919c-2fd5-4b6a-a66c-f4f5ed2b5586
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
11952380p
Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID
oswiecim
Curlie ID
Regional/Europe/Poland/Provinces/Malopolskie/Localities/Oswiecim/
De Agostini ID
Oświęcim
Dewey Decimal Classification
2--43862
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID
381519
Show all 50 identifiers +38
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Oswiecim
Eska.pl topic ID
tg-4ZNP-qiVj-giwa
FAST ID
1217166
FactGrid item ID
Heinrich Mayr
Freebase ID
/m/021p2p
GeoNames ID
3089658
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Oświęcim
Hikr waypoint ID
71009
Historical Gazetteer (GOV) ID
OWICIMJO90OA
Hrvatska enciklopedija ID
45826
Image Archive, Herder Institute
Oświęcim
JewishGen Locality ID
520665
Lex ID
Oświęcim
Museum-digital place ID
5012, 53591
MusicBrainz area ID
908298f9-0559-487c-a70a-4ad5e8f79416
NE.se ID
oswiecim
NL CR AUT ID
ge307692
National Historical Museums of Sweden ID
geo/62d6028d-9c17-4464-9571-368d41290cb8
National Library of Israel ID (old)
000989516
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007566691405171
Open Library subject ID
place:oświęcim_(poland)
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1777546
Proleksis enciklopedija ID
40136
Provenio UUID
a951a631-e3ab-480d-81fc-8dc9ea0acebd
Quora topic ID
Oświęcim
RKD thesaurus ID
3410
SIMC place ID
0924997
SVKKL authority ID
g0001961-Osvetim-Polsko
TERC municipality code
1213011
Topic's main category
Category:Oświęcim
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10045549
Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID
osvencimas
Wellcome Collection concept ID
q3aur9x8
Who's on First ID
101841547
World Historical Gazetteer place ID
13589067
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJjRXQjy4XVq78vHHhYXVC
YSO ID
216674
Yale LUX ID
place/10f7fda0-33f3-4a4c-b475-8d0d16ac9ae4

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🔗 Connections
People who died here 51
Rudolf Höss, Etty Hillesum, Viktor Ullmann, Zofia Posmysz, Charlotte Salomon, Pavel Haas, Hans Krása, Hana Brady +43 more
People born here 31
Beata Szydło, Łukasz Górnicki, Arkadiusz Skrzypaszek, Przemysław Niemiec, Paweł Korzeniowski, Maciej Sadlok, Tadeusz Makowski, Mariusz Siudek +23 more
Contained subdivisions 16
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Block 10, Block 11, Liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp, March of the Living, Auschwitz I concentration camp, Unia Oświęcim, Great Synagogue in Oświęcim +8 more
Twinned administrative body 6
Catania, Arezzo, Latina, Breisach, Sambir, Kerpen
← Place of burial 6
Zofia Posmysz, Jan III of Oświęcim, Jan II of Oświęcim, Jan I the Scholastic, Anicet Kopliński, Władysław of Oświęcim
← Twinned administrative body 6
Catania, Arezzo, Latina, Breisach, Sambir, Kerpen
← Category combines topics 5
Category:People who died in Auschwitz concentration camp, Category:People from Oświęcim, Category:Births in Oświęcim, Category:Sport in Oświęcim, Category:Deaths in Oświęcim
← Work location 5
Lale Sokolov, Hermann Langbein, Franz Lucas, Hugo Sonnenschein, Jerzy Adam Brandhuber
Capital of 3
Oświęcim County, Duchy of Oświęcim, Gmina Oświęcim
Shares border with 3
Gmina Oświęcim, Gmina Libiąż, Gmina Chełmek
← Capital 3
Oświęcim County, Duchy of Oświęcim, Gmina Oświęcim
← Shares border with 3
Gmina Oświęcim, Gmina Libiąż, Gmina Chełmek
Described by source 2
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
Located in or next to body of water 2
Vistula, Soła
Located in time zone 2
UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00
Residents 2
Roman Pindel, Franciszek Blachnicki
← Headquarters location 2
Unia Oświęcim, Synthos
Category for people born here 1
Category:Births in Oświęcim
Category for people who died here 1
Category:Deaths in Oświęcim
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Oświęcim
Continent 1
Europe
Country 1
Poland
Different from 1
Oświęcim, Greater Poland Voivodeship
FactGrid item ID 1
Heinrich Mayr
Head of government 1
Janusz Chwierut
Image Archive, Herder Institute 1
Oświęcim
Instance of 1
urban municipality of Poland
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Oświęcim County
Named after 1
Auschwitz
Topic's main category 1
Category:Oświęcim
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Oświęcim
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Oświęcim County
← Filming location 1
The Zone of Interest
← Image Archive, Herder Institute 1
Oświęcim
← Narrative location 1
The Truce
← SNARC ID 1
Saposoa
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Summary

Oświęcim is an urban municipality of Poland[1].

Body

Physical Characteristics

Oświęcim covers an area of 30.3 km²[41]. Oświęcim sits at an elevation of 230 m[42].

Cultural Significance

Things named for Oświęcim include Auschwitz[43], a Nazi concentration camp[44], in Nazi Germany[45], founded in 1940[46].

Why It Matters

Entities named for Oświęcim include Auschwitz[43], a Nazi concentration camp[44], in Nazi Germany[45], founded in 1940[46].

Related Entities

Aleksander Byrski Beata Szydło Etty Hillesum Poland Rudolf Höss

References

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  38. [39] ↑ . bdl.stat.gov.pl. Retrieved . bdl.stat.gov.pl. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  39. [40] ↑ . bdl.stat.gov.pl. Retrieved . bdl.stat.gov.pl. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [43] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 19d ago · Powerek38 · 2026-10-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['an', 'ar', 'arz', 'az', 'azb', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'bs', 'ca', 'ceb', 'com
    Sitelink count → 81
    Eska.pl topic ID → tg-4ZNP-qiVj-giwa
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Eska.pl topic ID: tg-4ZNP-qiVj-giwa, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/250715767|Oświęcim (#250715767)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7420|eska.pl topic"
  2. 16w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 3xktS3
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 18w ago · Printstream · 2026-07-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14586 → 87533
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14586: 87533, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1782930762135"
  4. 21w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → g0001961-Osvetim-Polsko
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ SVKKL authority ID: g0001961-Osvetim-Polsko, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
  5. 21w ago · Pyrros · 2026-06-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → Poland
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Country: Russian Empire"
  6. 26w ago · Pessimist2006 · 2026-05-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → Poland
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Country: Russian Empire"
  7. 26w ago · İmmortalance · 2026-05-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 50.03805555555556, 'lon': 19.22138888888889}
    Located in → —
    Category for people buried here → Wikidata item
    Inception → —
    + 32 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Located in time zone: UTC+01:00, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/257270|batch #257270]]"
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