Nowy Sacz
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| Coordinates: 49°37′26″N 20°41′50″E / 49.62389°N 20.69722°E | |||
| Country | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship | Lesser Poland | ||
| County | city county | ||
| Established | 1292 | ||
| Town rights | 1292 | ||
| Government | |||
| • Mayor | Ryszard Nowak | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 57 km2 (22 sq mi) | ||
| Elevation | 281 m (922 ft) | ||
| Population (2006) | |||
| • Total | 84,594 | ||
| • Density | 1,500/km2 (3,800/sq mi) | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| Postal code | 33-300 to 33-308, 33-310, 33-320 | ||
| Area code(s) | +48 18 | ||
| Car plates | KN | ||
| Website | http://www.nowysacz.pl | ||
Nowy Sącz pronounced [ˈnɔvɨ ˈsɔnt͡ʂ] is a city in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship of southern Poland. It is the district capital of Nowy Sącz County as a separate administrative unit from the powiat itself.
Founded by the Duke of Kraków on 8 November 1292, Nowy Sącz (known also by other names) is one of the oldest cities in the Lesser Poland region, with population of over 83,000 inhabitants as of 2014.
Nowy Sącz has been known in German as Neu Sandez and in Hungarian as Újszandec. The Rusyn (Galician) name was Novyj Sanc. Its Yiddish names include צאנז (Tsanz) and נײ-סאנץ (Nay-Sants). Other : Nowego Sącza: “of Nowy Sącz”, w Nowym Sączu: “in Nowy Sącz”; : nowosądeck-i/a/iego/iej/ie/ich and for the region sądeck-i/a/iego/iej/ie/ich.
Nowy Sącz is located at the confluence of the Kamienica River and Dunajec, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) north of the Slovak border, in the Sądecka Valley (Kotlina Sądecka) at an altitude of 381 metres (1,250 feet). It is surrounded by ranges of the eastern Outer Western Carpathian Mountains: Beskid Sądecki to the south, Beskid Wyspowy to the west, Beskid Niski to the southeast, and the foothills of Pogórze Rożnowskie to the north. The geological basis is Carpathian flysch – an undifferentiated grey-banded sandstone – with alluvial sediment from the Dunajec, Poprad, and Kamienica rivers in the valley basin. The climate is temperate, with an average annual rainfall of about 700 millimetres (27.6 inches).
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