Świnoujście průvodce

The river mouth of Świna at the Baltic Sea, separating the islands of Usedom (in the background) and Wolin (in the foreground). The city's name is idiomatically "Świnamouth" in both Polish and German, akin to Dartmouth or Plymouth in English
The river mouth of Świna at the Baltic Sea, separating the islands of Usedom (in the background) and Wolin (in the foreground). The city's name is idiomatically "Świnamouth" in both Polish and German, akin to Dartmouth or Plymouth in English

Świnoujście ([ɕvinɔ'ujɕtɕȋe] (help·info); German: Swinemünde) is a city with the administrative rights of a county (Polish: miasto na prawach powiatu) and a southern seaport on the Baltic, located in the extreme northwestern Poland, situated mainly on the islands of Usedom and Wolin, but also occupying smaller islands of which the largest is Karsibór island, once part of Usedom, since separated by a canal dug in the late 19th century to facilitate ship access to Stettin (today Szczecin).

As an urban county it is part of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999, and was previously part of the Szczecin Voivodeship (1975–1998). The city lies in the geographic region of Pomerania and had a population of 41,100 inhabitants in 2006.

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