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Łódź [a] is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located 120 km (75 mi) south-west of Warsaw. [8] As of 2023, Łódź has a population of 655,279, [1] making it the country's fourth largest city . Łódź first appears in records in 14th-century.
Lodz's 2024 population is now estimated at 655,300. In 1950, the population of Lodz was 608,144. Lodz experienced a decrease of -5,277 residents over the past year, marking an annual decline of -0.8%. These population estimates and projections come from the latest revision of the UN World Urbanization Prospects.
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Łódź, city, capital of Łódzkie województwo (province), central Poland. It lies on the northwestern edge of the Łódź Highlands, on the watershed of the Vistula and Oder rivers, 81 miles (130 km) southwest of Warsaw. Łódź is mentioned in 14th-century records as a village. It acquired municipal rights.
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Łódź is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located 120 km (75 mi) south-west of Warsaw. As of 2023, Łódź has a population of 655,279, making it the country's fourth largest city.
Lodz is the third largest urban centre in Poland with a population of about 742,000. Although the history of Lodz goes back a long way (it obtained city rights in the 15th century), its greatest development and later boom happened in the 19th century, when Lodz became a centre of the cloth industry.
As of 2022, 411,310 people reside within the city. It is in central Poland, contained within the lodz voivodeship. In native polish, the name alludes to "boat".
The city was Russia's main centre for textile production and large numbers of the industrialists were Jewish. Many of the city's grand mansions and buildings went up during this era of Lodz history. During the 1800s, the population of the city doubled every decade, and by the end of the century the city had emerged as a primary source of the ...
