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Krakow
Original post is here eklausmeier.goip.de/gallery/2022/05-21-krakow.
Visit in Krakow, Poland.
I traveled to Krakow from 07-May to 21-May-2022 to learn the Polish language. I had booked a Polish course on Polish-German Academic Society.
Below table shows the relation of Krakow to other polish cities.
| Nr. | City | Area / km² | Population |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Warsaw | 517.24 | 1,794,166 |
| 2. | Krakow | 326.8 | 780,796 |
| 3. | Lodz | 293.25 | 672,185 |
| 4. | Breslau (Wroclaw) | 292.92 | 641,928 |
| 5. | Posen | 261.85 | 532,048 |
| 6. | Danzig (Gdansk) | 262 | 470,633 |
Polish is the second most spoken slavic language. See Slawische Sprachen and table below.
| Branch | Language | Script | Million Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Slavic | Russian | Cyrillic | 150 |
| " | Ukrainian | Cyrillic | 35 |
| " | Belarusian | Cyrillic | 5 |
| West Slavic | Polish | Latin | 39 |
| " | Slovak | Latin | 5 |
| " | Czech | Latin | 11 |
| South Slavic | Slovene | Latin | 2 |
| " | Croatian | Latin | 6 |
| " | Serbo-Croatian | Latin | 15 |
| " | Bulgarian | Cyrillic | 6 |
| " | Macedonian | Cyrillic | 1 |
Some panorma images. Central station.
Market.
Market in Kazimierz.
Wawel tower.
The old-town is almost entirely enclosed in a park. While Central Park Manhatten is in the center of Manhatten, in Krakow the park surrounds the historic part of the town. Below drone photograph from Krakow4u shows this quite nicely.
Old-town and various buildings #1.
Old-town and various buildings #2.
Jagiellonian University in Krakow
An interesting learning resource for the Polish language is here: Movic po polsku.
Do widzenia, Krakow!