Ełk

city and urban gmina of Poland
Place urban_municipality_of_poland Q61480
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Ełk

Summary

Ełk is an urban municipality of Poland[1]. Ełk ranks in the top 5% of urban_municipality_of_poland entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (168 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Ełk is located in Ełk County[3].
  • Ełk is in the country of Poland[4].
  • Ełk's head of government is recorded as Tomasz Mariusz Andrukiewicz[5].
  • Ełk is on the continent of Europe[6].
  • Ełk's instance of is recorded as urban municipality of Poland[7].
  • Ełk's flag is recorded as flag of Ełk[8].
  • Ełk's twinned administrative body is recorded as Burlington[9].
  • Ełk's twinned administrative body is recorded as Nettetal[10].
  • Ełk's twinned administrative body is recorded as Orbassano[11].
  • Ełk's twinned administrative body is recorded as Lida[12].
  • Ełk's twinned administrative body is recorded as Hagen[13].
  • Ełk's twinned administrative body is recorded as Nemenčinė[14].
  • Ełk's twinned administrative body is recorded as Alytus[15].
  • Ełk's coat of arms is recorded as Q9289239[16].
  • Ełk's postal code is recorded as 19-300–19-306[17].
  • Ełk's Commons category is recorded as Ełk[18].
  • Ełk's licence plate code is recorded as NEL[19].
  • Ełk's located in time zone is recorded as Central European Summer Time[20].
  • Ełk's located in time zone is recorded as UTC+01:00[21].
  • Ełk's located in time zone is recorded as UTC+02:00[22].
  • Ełk's local dialing code is recorded as 87[23].
  • +1237-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Ełk[24].
  • Ełk's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 53.816666666667, 'lon': 22.35}[25].
  • Ełk's official website is recorded as http://www.elk.pl/[26].
  • Ełk's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Ełk[27].

Body

Geography

Ełk is in the country of Poland[4]. Ełk is located in Ełk County[3]. Ełk is on the continent of Europe[6].

Physical Characteristics

Ełk covers an area of {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+21'}[28]. Ełk sits at an elevation of {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+147'}[29]. Population counts include {'amount': '+60621'}[30], {'amount': '+62006'}[31], and {'amount': '+60390'}[32].

Designation and Status

Ełk's instance of is recorded as urban municipality of Poland[7].

History and Context

+1237-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Ełk[24].

Why It Matters

Ełk ranks in the top 5% of urban_municipality_of_poland entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (168 views/month).[2] Ełk has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] Ełk is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . hagen.de. hagen.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . alytus.lt. alytus.lt. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . worlddata.info. Retrieved . worlddata.info. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . worlddata.info. Retrieved . worlddata.info. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.
  26. [30] . wikidata.org.
  27. [31] . wikidata.org.
  28. [32] . bdl.stat.gov.pl. Retrieved . bdl.stat.gov.pl. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  29. [29] . wikidata.org.
  30. [28] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [33] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [34] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11d ago · Gower · 2026-05-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in/on physical feature Q858874
    Location
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/30868|batch #30868]]: Poland Pojezierze Mazurskie entities +P706"
  2. 11d ago · Gower · 2026-05-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone Central European Summer Time, UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00
    Location
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/30866|batch #30866]]: Poland Masurian Lake District entities +P276"
  3. 17d ago · İmmortalance · 2026-05-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country
    Great norwegian encyclopedia id Ełk
    Coordinate location {'lat': 53.816666666667, 'lon': 22.35}
    Located in
    + 34 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P421]]: [[Q6655]], [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/257270|batch #257270]]"
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