Szczecin

Szczecin () is a large city in Poland in West Pomeranian Voivodeship. As of 2005, 411,119 people live there. The city is on the river Odra (), near the border to Germany. It is one of the largest sea ports on the Baltic. It is the historical capital of the German province of Pomerania. Szczecin has got one of the biggest harbours on the Baltic Sea.

Szczecin borders with Police, a district town at the Oder River.

Sister cities
  Bremerhaven in Germany
  Rostock in Germany
  Dalian in People's Republic of China
  Esbjerg in Denmark esbjergkommune.dk accessed Feb-2008
  Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg in Germany
  Lübeck in Germany  Kingston upon Hull in United Kingdom
  Malmö in Sweden
  Murmansk in Russia
  St. Louis, Missouri in United States
  Klaipėda in Lithuania
  Greifswald, GermanyGreifswald.de 

References


Category:Port cities and towns of the Baltic Sea