Józefów nad Wisłą () is a small

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

Opole Lubelskie County Opole County ( pl, powiat opolski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lublin Voivodeship, eastern Poland. It was established on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 19 ...

Lublin Voivodeship The Lublin Voivodeship, also known as the Lublin Province ( Polish: ''województwo lubelskie'' ), is a voivodeship (province) of Poland, located in southeastern part of the country. It was created on January 1, 1999, out of the former Lublin, C ...

, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Józefów nad Wisłą. It lies approximately south-west of

Opole Lubelskie Opole Lubelskie is a town in eastern Poland. As of 2004, it had 8,879 inhabitants. The town is situated in Lublin Voivodeship, some 10 kilometers east of the Vistula River, and is the capital of Opole Lubelskie County. It was founded in the 14th ...

and south-west of the regional capital Lublin. Józefów nad Wisłą lies on the

Vistula The Vistula (; pl, Wisła, ) is the longest river in Poland and the ninth-longest river in Europe, at in length. The drainage basin, reaching into three other nations, covers , of which is in Poland. The Vistula rises at Barania Góra in ...

river. The town has a population of 1,023, and in 1687–1870 it had a status of a town, regained in 2018.

Twin towns

Józefów nad Wisłą is twinned with: * Auce, Latvia *

Hollóháza Hollóháza ( sk, Holoház) is a village in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County in northeastern Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia ...

, Hungary *

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, Poland

Gallery

File:Corpus Christi church in Jozefow nad Wisła A7032 02.JPG,

References

Cities and towns in Lublin Voivodeship Lesser Poland Lublin Governorate Lublin Voivodeship (1919–1939) {{OpoleLubelskie-geo-stub