Polkowice is a town in south-western Poland with 21,700 inhabitants (2004).
It is situated in the Lower Silesian Voivodship (since 1999), and was previously in Legnica Voivodship (1975–1998). Polkowice is among the richest cities in Poland and has been designated as the best administered Polish gmina on a couple of occasions. The relative success of a city is also due to fact that Polkowice is located in the industrial copper-mining area, with a copper-processing plants located in the Polkowice powiat. Lower Silesian voivodship since 1999 Lower Silesia (Polish Dolny Śląsk, German Niederschlesien, Latin Silesia Inferior) is the north-western part of the historical and geographical region of Silesia in Poland, located along the middle Oder River and organized into Lower Silesian Voivodship, (Polish: województwo dolnośląskie) with capital Wrocław It was... Legnica Voivodship (Polish: województwo legnickie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1975-1998, superseded by Lower Silesian Voivodship. ... Powiat is the Polish name for county, a second-level unit of the administrative division and local government in Poland. ...
Education
Dolnośląska Wyższa Szkoła Przedsiębiorczości i Techniki
Sports
Gornik Polkowice - football team (1st league in season 2003/2004)
Polkowice today is the fastest developing city in Poland, rich in industrial, social, recreational and cultural infrastructure.
Nature has been generous to Polkowice in providing it with large deposits of copper ore. In addition, the town's location is very favorable in terms of geography and transportation.
We should remember that Polkowice is situated in a heavily urbanized and populated region, where over two million people live on an area of five thousand square meters.
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