Łomża, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland

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🇵🇱 Łomża, in English known as Lomza, is a city in north-eastern Poland, approximately 150 km to the north-east of Warsaw and 80 km west of Białystok. It is situated alongside the Narew river as part of the Podlaskie Voivodeship since 1999. It is the capital of Łomża County and has been the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Łomża since 1925.

Łomża is one of the principal economic, educational, and cultural centres of north-eastern Masovia as well as one of the three main cities of Podlaskie Voivodeship (beside Białystok and Suwałki). It lends its name to the protected area of Łomża Landscape Park. The town is also the location of the Łomża Brewery.

Economy The economy of Łomża is closely connected to its natural environment, with agricultural and forestry industries at the forefront of the region's economic development. The economy is ecologically friendly, including the food industries, brewing, electronics, the manufacture of building materials and furniture, the production and processing of agricultural crops, as well as tourism and agro-tourism. Even the largest companies employ less than 1,000 workers, even though a number of firms are listed on the Podlasie Top One Hundred Entrepreneurs. Among them, the Łomża Brewery (large scale producer of beer), DOMEL (producer of unleaded windows), FARGOTEX (importer of upholstery fabrics), Konrad (importer of farm animals), Łomża furniture factory (Łomżyńska Fabryka Mebli), PEPEES (producer of potato starch), Purzeczko (the personal and property protection). On top of that, the city is a registered office of the Podlasie Agency for Restructuring and Modernisation of Agriculture.

By the end of 2007, the number of people steadily employed in Łomża was 13,408, including 7,170 women, however, the unemployment rate (as of 2009) remained considerably high at 14.1 percent. The number of businesses registered by the end of 2008 was 6,421 of which 6,280 belonged to the private sector.

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Łomża has a population of over 62,780 people. Łomża also forms the centre of the wider Łomża County which has a population of over 113,694 people. It is estimated there are around 6,421 businesses in Łomża.

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Twin Towns - Sister Cities Łomża has links with:

🇱🇻 Daugavpils, Latvia 🇺🇦 Kolomyia, Ukraine 🇺🇦 Kolomyya, Ukraine 🇧🇾 Lida, Belarus 🇺🇸 Muscatine, USA 🇺🇦 Novohrad-Volynskyi, Ukraine 🇱🇹 Šalčininkai, Lithuania 🇺🇦 Zviahel, Ukraine
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Antipodal to Łomża is: -157.918,-53.177

Locations Near: Łomża 22.0817,53.1767

🇵🇱 Ostrołęka 21.571,53.085 d: 35.6  

🇵🇱 Pisz 21.8,53.617 d: 52.4  

🇵🇱 Grajewo 22.45,53.65 d: 58  

🇵🇱 Ełk 22.35,53.817 d: 73.3  

🇵🇱 Giżycko 21.768,54.04 d: 98.2  

🇵🇱 Siedlce 22.283,52.17 d: 112.7  

🇵🇱 Mrągowo 21.3,53.867 d: 92.5  

🇵🇱 Białystok 23.156,53.128 d: 71.8  

🇵🇱 Szczytno 21.045,53.508 d: 78.1  

🇵🇱 Bielsk Podlaski 23.189,52.774 d: 86.6  

Antipodal to: Łomża -157.918,-53.177

🇹🇴 Nuku'alofa -175.216,-21.136 d: 16159.4  

🇵🇫 Papeete -149.566,-17.537 d: 15986.4  

🇦🇸 Pago Pago -170.701,-14.279 d: 15545.8  

🇼🇸 Apia -171.76,-13.833 d: 15473.1  

🇺🇸 Hilo -155.089,19.725 d: 11904.2  

🇺🇸 Maui -156.446,20.72 d: 11796.9  

🇺🇸 Maui County -156.617,20.868 d: 11780.8  

🇺🇸 Kahului -156.466,20.891 d: 11777.9  

🇺🇸 Wailuku -156.505,20.894 d: 11777.7  

🇺🇸 Honolulu -157.85,21.3 d: 11733.7  

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