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Bratislava
Bratislava (Pressburg, Pozsony, Prešporok) is the capital of Slovakia on the Danube, renamed in 1919, Hungarian coronation city 1536–1830, Slovak capital since 1993, generating 28% of national GDP.
Bydgoszcz
Bydgoszcz (Bromberg), a city in northern Poland on the Brda and Vistula rivers, chartered in 1346, shaped by Prussian rule and the 1773–1774 Bydgoszcz Canal linking the Vistula and Oder basins; seat of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian voivode.
Bytom
Bytom (German: Beuthen) is a city in Upper Silesia, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland; chartered 1254, a former coal and metallurgy center with 144,598 residents in 2025 and ongoing EU-funded revitalization.
Český Krumlov
Český Krumlov (Krumau), South Bohemian town on the Vltava meander; castle first recorded 1253, Rožmberk seat, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1992, second-largest Czech castle, about 13,100 residents, major overtourism destination.
Częstochowa
Częstochowa, southern Polish city on the Warta River, home of the Jasna Góra Pauline monastery and Black Madonna shrine drawing millions of pilgrims yearly; about 201,000 official residents (225,000 estimated, 2025), founded on Magdeburg Law in 1357.
Děčín
Děčín, historically known as Tetschen, is a town of about 46,000 people in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic, on the Elbe at the German border.
Elbląg
Elbląg (German: Elbing), a Polish city of about 124,000 on the Elbląg river, founded by the Teutonic Knights in 1237, a Hanseatic port, rebuilt after 1945 destruction via the retroversion doctrine, home to the Elbląg Canal.
Gdańsk
Gdańsk (Danzig), Baltic port city in northern Poland, largest city of Polish Pomerania and part of the Tricity conurbation with Sopot and Gdynia; about 488,000 residents, major container port, Free City of Danzig between the world wars.
Gdynia
Gdynia (Kashubian: Gdiniô) is a port city on the Baltic coast of northern Poland, built from a fishing village in the 1920s around a purpose-built seaport.
Kołobrzeg
Kołobrzeg, known in German as Kolberg, is a seaside town and health resort in West Pomerania, Poland, at the mouth of the Parsęta River on the Baltic Sea.
Košice
Košice, Slovakia's second largest city and eastern metropolis on the Hornád River; first mentioned 1230 as Villa Cassa, first European city with a royal coat of arms (1369), population 223,678 (2024).
Kraków
Kraków (Cracow), city with powiat rights on the Vistula in southern Poland; former Polish capital, capital of Lesser Poland Voivodeship, second city of Poland by population and area, chartered 1257, UNESCO-listed historic center.
Legnica
Legnica (Liegnitz) is a county-rights city in Lower Silesia, Poland, with about 90,343 inhabitants, known for the 1241 Battle of Legnica against the Mongols, the Piast castle, and the Legnica Special Economic Zone.
Litoměřice
Litoměřice (Leitmeritz) is a royal town in northern Bohemia on the Elbe at the Ohře confluence, 69 km from Prague; founded 1219, diocesan seat since 1655, wine center, 22,627 residents in 2025.
Łódź
Łódź, historically Litzmannstadt, is a city in central Poland and capital of Łódź Voivodeship, which grew from the 1820s into eastern Europe's largest textile center, with about 640,000 residents today.
Mělník
Mělník, Czech royal dowry town in Central Bohemia at the Elbe–Vltava confluence, first recorded 995, elevation 215 m, about 20,300 inhabitants, known for its chateau, ossuary, and Burgundy-vine wine tradition from Charles IV.
Ostrava
Ostrava, Czech statutory city and Moravian-Silesian Region capital, third largest Czech city by area and population; former coal and steel center, now services, universities, and Dolní Vítkovice industrial heritage.
Oświęcim
Oświęcim (German: Auschwitz) is a town of about 35,000 in southern Poland, in Małopolska, with 800 years of recorded history; it is known worldwide as the site of the Nazi German Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp, now the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.
Plzeň
Plzeň (Pilsen) is a statutory city in western Bohemia, capital of the Plzeň Region and the Czech Republic's fourth largest city. Founded about 1295 by Wenceslas II at the confluence of four rivers, it is home to Škoda and the Pilsner Urquell brewery.
Poznań
Poznań, a major city in western Poland and historical capital of Wielkopolska, founded 1253 under Magdeburg Law; about 534,000 registered residents, fifth largest Polish city, home of Adam Mickiewicz University and the Poznań Fast Tram.
Prague
Prague (Praha), capital and largest city of Czechia on the Vltava, 1.4 million residents, GDP per capita 192% of EU average, record 8.08 million tourists in 2024, 65 km metro, UNESCO historic core.
Prešov
Prešov (Eperjes) is Slovakia's third largest city, administrative center of the Prešov Region in the east, first mentioned in 1247, granted town privileges in 1299, with about 81,700 inhabitants in 2025.
Przemyśl
Przemyśl: city on the San River in southeastern Poland near the Ukrainian border; Austro-Hungary's largest fortress, besieged and captured in WWI (surrender 22 March 1915); medieval old town, border rail hub.
Radom
Radom, city in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland (191,819 residents, 2025). Medieval royal city, 1401 Polish-Lithuanian union, 1767 Radom Confederation, arms industry, 1976 workers' protest.
Rybnik
Rybnik is a city with powiat rights in Poland's Silesian Voivodeship, 126,248 inhabitants, 148.36 km², 27 districts. Former coal-mining hub once called Poland's smog capital, now a clean-air and energy-transition example.
Słubice
Słubice, a town in Lubusz Voivodeship, western Poland, on the Oder opposite Frankfurt (Oder); formerly Frankfurt's Dammvorstadt suburb, Polish since 1945, seat of Słubice County and home of the first Wikipedia monument. Distinct from the Mazovian Gmina Słubice.
Szczecin
Szczecin, also known by its German name Stettin, is a major city and Baltic port in northwestern Poland on the Oder River, and the capital of the Zachodniopomorskie Voivodship.
Toruń
Toruń is a city in northern Poland on the Vistula River, reputed birthplace in 1473 of Nicolaus Copernicus, whose medieval old town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Uherské Hradiště
Uherské Hradiště, royal town in Zlín Region, Czechia, center of Slovácko; founded 1257 by Přemysl Otakar II as a Morava-river border fortress, about 24,850 inhabitants, leaning town hall, wine cellars.
Warsaw
Warsaw (Warszawa), capital and largest city of Poland on the Vistula; royal capital under Sigismund III Vasa from 1596, destroyed after the 1944 Uprising, rebuilt, population about 1.87 million.