Lublin

**Lublin** is a city in eastern Poland. It's in the Lublin Voivodeship. It has an area of 147.5 km<sup>2</sup>. About 354,000 people live in Lublin.  It is the largest Polish city east of the Vistula River.  The Bystrzyca river, a tributary of the Wieprz river, passes through the city and divides it into two parts: western, with a more varied relief with loess gorges, and eastern, which is flat. In the southern part of the city there is the artificial Zemborzyce Lake created by damming Bystrzyca. It is on the route between Vilnius and Kraków.

It was started in the 6<sup>th</sup> or 7<sup>th</sup> century. City walls were built in the 1340s. The Lublin Parliament session of 1569 led to the  union between  the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania which became  the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.  It was  an important national centre of Arianism.  it was ruined in the wars of the 17<sup>th</sup> century.

The National Museum, Lublin is now in the Lublin Castle which was started in the 12th century.

There are five public universities:

- Maria Curie-Sklodowska University
- John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
- Medical University of Lublin
- University of Life Sciences in Lublin
- Politechnika Lubelska

Lublin Airport (Port Lotniczy Lublin) (IATA: LUZ) is about 10 km (6.2 miles) SE of Lublin.  Trains go from Lublin Główny railway station to the major cities in Poland. There are local trains.   It is one of only four towns in Poland to have trolleybuses.

## Infobox (mapframe)

- **wikidata**: yes
- **zoom**: 11
- **height**: 300
- **stroke-width**: 1


## Infobox (settlement)

- **name**: Lublin
- **image caption**: **Clockwise from top**: panorama of the Lublin Old Town, Old Town; Mannerist architecture and sculpture in Poland, Mannerist tenements at the Market Square; Krakowskie Przedmieście Street; Lublin Castle, Royal Castle; and Krakowska Gate
- **image flag**: POL Lublin flag.svg
- **image shield**: POL Lublin COA 1.svg
- **image blank emblem**: LOGO LUBLIN.svg
- **blank emblem type**: Brandmark
- **pushpin map**: Poland
- **pushpin relief**: 1
- **pushpin label position**: top
- **subdivision type**: List of sovereign states, Country
- **subdivision type1**: Voivodeships of Poland, Voivodeship
- **subdivision type2**: List of counties in Poland, Powiat
- **subdivision name2**: **City County**
<small>(Capital of Lublin County but not part of it)</small>
- **leader party**: Civic Platform, PO
- **leader title**: City mayor
- **leader name**: Krzysztof Żuk
- **parts type**: Dzielnica, Districts
- **parts**: 27 boroughs
- **seat type**: Seat of local government, City Hall
- **seat**: Lublin New Town Hall
- **established title**: Established
- **established date**: before 12th century
- **established title3**: City rights
- **established date3**: 1317
- **area total km2**: 147
- **population as of**: 31 December 2021
- **population total**: 336,339  (List of cities and towns in Poland, 9th)
- **population density km2**: 2310
- **population metro**: 664,000
- **timezone**: Central European Time, CET
- **utc offset**: +1
- **timezone dst**: Central European Summer Time, CEST
- **utc offset dst**: +2
- **postal code type**: Postal code
- **postal code**: 20-001 to 20-999
- **area code**: +48 81
- **blank name**: Polish car number plates, Car plates
- **blank info**: LU
- **blank name sec2**: Primary airport
- **blank info sec2**: Lublin Airport
- **blank1 name sec2**: Highways in Poland, Highways
- **blank1 info sec2**:
- **motto**: _Fidelitatem et Constantiam_ (in Latin)
_Wiernością i Stałością_ (in Polish)
- **blank emblem size**: 120px