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Rybnik

Rybnik is a city in southern Poland, in the Silesian Voivodeship, around 38 km (24 mi) southwest of Katowice, the region's capital, and around 19 km (12 mi) from the Czech border.

Rybnik
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The place

Rybnik is a city in southern Poland, in the Silesian Voivodeship, around 38 km (24 mi) southwest of Katowice, the region's capital, and around 19 km (12 mi) from the Czech border. It is one of the major cities of the Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan area with a population of 5.3 million and the main city of the so-called Subregion Zachodni, previously also known as the Rybnik Coal Area. The city currently has a population of 122,026 inhabitants as of December 31, 2025.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Rybnik

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

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    Rybnik municipal stadium

    Rybnik Stadium is a motorcycle speedway and association football stadium located in the northern part of Rybnik off Gliwicka 72. The stadium is the home arena of Polish speedway team KS ROW Rybnik who compete in the Team Speedway Polish Championship.

    2.8 km · stadium in Eskilstuna, Sweden · Wikipedia

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Getting to Rybnik

Airports
Leoš Janáček Ostrava (OSR), 53 km · Katowice Wojciech Korfanty (KTW), 58 km · Kraków John Paul II (KRK), 88 km
Stations
Wodzisław Śląski, 9.9 km
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  • Balice → Rybnik
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Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Rybnik. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

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    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

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    KorčulaHR

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    MljetHR

    9 ways of moving, 28 sources

    821 km
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    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    920 km

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