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Lublin
Clockwise from top: panorama of the Old Town; Mannerist tenements at the Market Square; Krakowskie Przedmieście Street; Royal Castle; and Krakowska Gate
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Motto(s):  Fidelitatem et Constantinam (in Latin) Wiernością i Stałością (in Polish)[1]
Lublin
Coordinates: 51°15′N 22°34′E / 51.250°N 22.567°E / 51.250; 22.567
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Lublin
Powiat	City County (Capital of Lublin County but not part of it)
Established	before 12th century
City rights	1317
City Hall	Lublin New Town Hall
Districts	27 boroughs
Government
• City mayor	Krzysztof Żuk (PO)
Area
• City	147 km2 (57 sq mi)
Population  (31 December 2021)
• City	336,339 (9th)[2]
• Density	2,310/km2 (6,000/sq mi)
• Metro	664,000
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	20-001 to 20-999
Area code	+48 81
Car plates	LU
Primary airport	Lublin Airport
Highways
Website	www.lublin.eu/en

Lublin is a city in eastern Poland. It's in the Lublin Voivodeship. It has an area of 147.5 km². About 354,000 people live in Lublin. It is the largest Polish city east of the Vistula River. The Bystrzyca river, a tributary of the Wieprz river, passes through the city and divides it into two parts: western, with a more varied relief with loess gorges, and eastern, which is flat. In the southern part of the city there is the artificial Zemborzyce Lake created by damming Bystrzyca. It is on the route between Vilnius and Kraków.

It was started in the 6^th or 7^th century. City walls were built in the 1340s. The Lublin Parliament session of 1569 led to the union between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania which became the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was an important national centre of Arianism. it was ruined in the wars of the 17^th century.^[3]

The National Museum, Lublin is now in the Lublin Castle which was started in the 12th century.

There are five public universities:

• Maria Curie-Sklodowska University
• John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
• Medical University of Lublin
• University of Life Sciences in Lublin
• Politechnika Lubelska

Lublin Airport (Port Lotniczy Lublin) (IATA: LUZ) is about 10 km (6.2 miles) SE of Lublin. Trains go from Lublin Główny railway station to the major cities in Poland. There are local trains. It is is one of only four towns in Poland to have trolleybuses.

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