Bialystok

Bialystok is the largest city in northeastern Poland and the capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship. Bialystok is the 10^th largest city in Poland, second in terms of populace density, and 13^th in area. Bialystok located in the Bialystok Uplands of the Podlaskie Plain at the banks of the Biala River. It has historically attracted migrants from some other place in Poland and beyond, in particular from Central and Eastern Europe. This is facilitated with the aid of the fact that the nearby border with Belarus is likewise the japanese border of the European Union, as well as the Schengen Area.

The city and its adjoining municipalities constitute Metropolitan Bialystok. The city has a Warm Summer Continental weather, characterized with the aid of heat summers and long frosty winters. Forests are an vital a part of Bialystok's individual, and occupy around 1,756 ha which locations it because the 5^th most forested town in Poland. The first settlers arrived in the 14^th century. A town grew up and obtained its municipal constitution in 1692. The metropolis keeps to reshape itself into a contemporary town.