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| Krakow lies in the Southern part of Poland on the Vistula River in a valley at the foot of the Carpathian Plateau, 219 m above sea level. Approx. 300 km to the North lays Warsaw, the capital of Poland, and 100 km South are the Tatra Mountains, forming the Southern border.
The city covers an area of 327 km2, equalling 0.1% of the country. |
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With almost 800.000 inhabitants, Krakow is one of the biggest cities in Poland. The old part of town has a unique historic character and the city is a prominent centre of culture, science, a university city, where the economic activity is very strong and tourism growing. Krakow was under the first cities to be enlisted to the World Natural and Cultural Heritage and in the year 2000 Krakow was “cultural capital” of Europe. The main functions of the city are:
• Education, with about 140.000 students at “Jagiellonian University”, the oldest university in Central and Eastern Europe;
• Industry, including the metallurgical, steel, chemical, food, clothing and printing industries. For several years radical restructuring of Krakow's industry has been taking lace aiming to reduce environmental impact, to stimulate the transition to new more effective technologies and to decrease the cost of production. In Krakow’s “Special Economic Zone” the Centre for Advanced Technologies is located together with other elected companies
• Services, especially tourism.
The mission in the strategy of city development is: reinforcement of the metropolitan functions of Krakow as a European centre of culture, arts, science, tourism, services and modern industry, as well as creation of conditions suitable for the continuous improvement of the quality of living of its residents. |
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