Białowieża
village in Podlaskie, Poland
Białowieża [bʲawɔˈvʲɛʐa] is a village in Poland's Podlaskie Voivodeship, in the middle of the Białowieża Forest, to which it gave its name.
Location
Białowieża is in eastern Poland, in Podlaskie Voivodeship, near Poland's border with Belarus. The Narewka River flows through Białowieża.
It lies on provincial road No. 689 running from Bielsk Podlaski. It used to be an important point on the former trade route from Grodno to Brest-Litovsk. Since 2005 there has been a Polish-Belarusian pedestrian and bicycle border crossing in Grudki, 4 km (2 mi) from the village. Bialowieza is the terminus of the (active until 1994) railroad line to Hajnówka.
Białowieża is the seat of the administrative district of Gmina Białowieża. Other villages in the district are Budy, Gródek, Pogorzelce, and Teremiski.
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