national park
Białowieża Forest
Europe's last primeval lowland forest and a UNESCO site, home to the largest population of wild European bison.
20 km · about 25 min drive
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Hajnówka
Podlasie, Poland · Europe
About Hajnówka
Hajnówka is worth a stop: 20 minutes from Orla, 20km from Białowieża Forest.
Hajnówka is in Podlasie, Poland, with about 22,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Orla, about 17 km away.
Hajnówka is a town and a powiat seat in the Podlaskie Voivodeship in eastern Poland, with a population of 21,442 inhabitants as of 2014. It is the capital of Hajnówka County. The town is also notable for its proximity to the Białowieża Forest, the biggest primaeval forest in Europe. Through Hajnówka flows the riverRead more
Leśna Prawa. It is one of the centres of Orthodox faith and a notable centre of Belarusian culture in Poland.
Belarusians constituted 26.4% of the town's population in 2002.
It is one of five Polish/Belarusian bilingual gminas in Podlaskie Voivodeship regulated by the Act of 6 January 2005 on National and Ethnic Minorities and on the Regional Languages, which permits certain gminas with significant linguistic minorities to introduce a second, auxiliary language to be used in official contexts alongside Polish.
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What is there to see near Hajnówka?
Within an hour or so of Hajnówka: Białowieża Forest (20 km), Bialowieza National Park (20 km), Belovezhskaya Pushcha (28 km).
Where is Hajnówka?
Hajnówka is in Podlasie, Poland, about 17 km from Orla.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 22,157
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Poland
- Region
- Podlasie
- Timezone
- Europe/Warsaw
- Coordinates
- 52.7433, 23.5812
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Worth the detour from Hajnówka
3 notable places within an hour's drive.
national park
Bialowieza National Park
Europe's last primeval lowland forest and refuge of wild European bison, straddling the Belarusian border.
20 km · about 25 min drive
national park
Belovezhskaya Pushcha
UNESCO-listed primeval forest straddling the Belarus-Poland border, home to Europe's largest population of free-roaming European bison.
28 km · about 30 min drive
Driving in Poland
- Drives on
- the right
- Petrol
- ~€1.42/litre
- Motorway tolls
- ~€5.00/100km
When to drive here
April to October
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