Wapno
Sign in to saveWapno is a village in Wągrowiec County, in the Greater Poland Voivodeship, close to the border with Żnin County. Wapno is Polish for lime and reflects the large gypsum deposits in the area, which can be processed to produce lime. There are also large deposits of rock salt that were mined extensively beginning in the nineteenth century.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Wapno
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Kościół św. Barbary w Wapnie.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- Church of Saint Barbara
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Poland
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Voivodeship
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Greater Poland
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Powiat
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Wągrowiec
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Gmina
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Wapno
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2006
- Settlement.population_total
- 1700
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.timezone
- CET
via Wikipedia infobox
~3 min read
Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Municipal organization
- History
- References
- External links
Wapno is a village in Wągrowiec County, in the Greater Poland Voivodeship, close to the border with Żnin County. Wapno is Polish for lime and reflects the large gypsum deposits in the area, which can be processed to produce lime. There are also large deposits of rock salt that were mined extensively beginning in the nineteenth century.
Wapno lies in the so-called Gniezno Lake District, and is close to several lakes. The village is north of the town of Wągrowiec.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wapno” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
3 mapped locations