Location: Zgorzelec 🌎

Zgorzelec ([zɡɔˈʐɛlɛt͡s] , German: Görlitz, Silesian: Gorlice, Upper Lusatian German dialect: Gerlz, Gerltz, and Gerltsch, Upper Sorbian: Zhorjelc, Lower Sorbian: Zgórjelc, Czech: Zhořelec) is a town in southwestern Poland with 30,374 inhabitants (2019). It lies in Lower Silesian Voivodeship. It is the seat of Zgorzelec County and of Gmina Zgorzelec (although it is not part of the territory of the latter, as the town is an urban gmina in its own right). Zgorzelec is located on the Lusatian Neisse river, on the Polish-German border adjoining the German town of Görlitz, of which it constituted the eastern part up to 1945.