Toruń (pol)

Toruń

Toruń ranks 2,004th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Copenhagen Castle, Haugesund, and Châtenay-Malabry. Memorable people born in Toruń include Nicolaus Copernicus, Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, and Hermann Rauschning. Memorable people who died in Toruń include John I Albert. Toruń has been the birth place of many athletes, and astronomers and the death place of many politicians. Toruń is located in Poland.

Toruń is a city on the Vistula River in north-central Poland and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its population was 196,935 as of December 2021. Previously, it was the capital of the Toruń Voivodeship (1975–1998) and the Pomeranian Voivodeship (1921–1945). Since 1999, Toruń has been a seat of the local government of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship and is one of its two capitals, together with Bydgoszcz. The cities and neighboring counties form the Bydgoszcz–Toruń twin city metropolitan area. Read more on Wikipedia