Location and Area
Tarnobrzeg lies along National Road nr. 9, which also makes Polish part of the European route E371. The town also is a railroad hub, with five stations located within its limits (Ocice, Sobow, Tarnobrzeg, Tarnobrzeg Waskotorowy and Wielowies). Rail lines stem from Tarnobrzeg into for directions: southwards towards Debica, southeast towards Rzeszow, east towards Stalowa Wola, and northwards, towards Sandomierz.
Currently Tarnobrzeg is one of the largest towns of Poland in terms of territory. It covers the area of 85 sq. kilometers, and the distance between its extreme northern and southern locations reaches 20 kilometers. This is due to the fact that in 1975, Tarnobrzeg unexpectedly became the capital of a newly created province, Tarnobrzeg Voivodeship. To expand the town, local authorities initiated a policy of annexation of local villages. As a result, in the late 1970s the size of the town quickly grew, when several villages and settlements (Machow, Dzikow, Miechocin, Wielowies, Sielec, Podleze, Sobow, Mokrzyszow) became part of Tarnobrzeg as its districts. The Old Town and historic center of Tarnobrzeg covers a very small area of the town, as 80% of Tarnobrzeg was built after the war.
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