| Area and location
Location: southern Poland, Śląskie Voivodeship (Upper Silesia)
Area (sq km): 164.5
Main road connections: motorway A4 (Zgorzelec-Medyka), highway A1 (Gdańsk-Cieszyn)
Direct rail connections: with Vienna, Berlin, Kiev, Budapest, Prague, Bratislava, Moscow, Ostrava, Hamburg
Distances to major cities:
Gdańsk - 535 km
Cracow - 78 km
Łódź - 240 km
Poznań - 320 km
Warsaw - 285 km
Wrocław - 180 km
Berlin - 560 km
Bratislava - 360 km
Kiev - 935 km
Moscow - 1375 km
Paris - 1600 km
Prague - 400 km
Vienna - 430 km
Border crossings (distances):
- to Russia: Bezledy (575 km)
- to Lithuania: Ogrodniki (595 km)
- to Belarus: Kuźnica Białostocka (545 km), Kukuryki (445 km)
- to Ukraine: Medyka (335 km)
- to Slovakia: Korbielów (80 km), Łysa Polana (165 km)
- to the Czech Republic: Cieszyn (75 km), Cieszyn-Boguszowice (78 km), Chałupki (85 km), Zwardoń (100 km), Muszyna (70 km)
- to Germany: Zgorzelec/Jędrzychowice (360 km), Olszyna (415 km)
- international ferry terminals: Gdańsk (541 km) Gdynia (555 km), Świnoujście (640 km)
International airports: Katowice's airport at Pyrzowice (31 km), Cracow's airport (65 km), Warsaw's airport (280 km)
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