Terespol

Terespol
Terespol local government building
Coat of arms
Terespol
Coordinates: 52°5′N 23°34′E / 52.083°N 23.567°E / 52.083; 23.567
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Lublin
County	Biała Podlaska
Gmina	Terespol (urban gmina)
Government
• Mayor	Jacek Danieluk
Area
• Total	10.11 km2 (3.90 sq mi)
Population (2014)
• Total	5,794
• Density	570/km2 (1,500/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	21-550
Car plates	LBI
Website	www.terespol.pl

Terespol [tɛˈrɛspɔl] is a town in eastern Poland on the border with Belarus. It lies on the border river Bug, directly opposite the city of Brest, Belarus. It has 6,002 inhabitants (2004).

Since 1999 Terespol has been within Biała Podlaska County in Lublin Voivodeship. Between 1975 and 1998 it belonged to Biała Podlaska Voivodeship. The town is a busy border crossing between Poland and Belarus on the European route E30 which links Berlin-Warsaw-Minsk-Moscow. Another crossing into Brest is located at Kukuryki northwest of Terespol. There is also a local train between Brest, Belarus and Terespol. It comes 3 times a day. The trip takes 18 minutes and is a very comfortable way of crossing border between Belarus and Poland.

Around Terespol one can find some of the old fortifications that were once part of the Brest Fortress.

Terespol features in a novel by the Yiddish Nobel Prize-winning writer Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Family Moskat (1950), in which the young protagonist, Asa Heshel Bennet, comes to Warsaw from his hometown of Terespol Minor to study.