Close to 300,000 residents makes Bialystok the largest city of north-eastern Poland and the capital of the Podlaskie Region.

The Tri-City is an urban complex extending along the Bay of Gdansk and is one of Poland's largest tourist attractions.

In 1108, the Polish Duke Boleslaw III founded a small fortified settlement that was nestled in a valley among the mountains. Such were the origins of today's Jelenia Gora, a city with 900 years of history.

The Old and the New Town in Torun, with its Teutonic Castle, were entered on the UNESCO list of the most important historic sites of world cultural heritage in 1997.

Bydgoszcz is a city of nearly 400,000 inhabitants which has, for over seven centuries, growing harmoniously alongside the banks of the Rivers Brda and Vistula, drawn its wisdom and strength from the resources of the spiritual and material heritage of three geographic and historic regions, Greater Poland, Pomerania and Kujawy.

Gorzow Wielkopolski is not only the largest city in the province but it is also the region's true hub, the real centre where the administration, economic, cultural and social threads intertwine.

The city of Katowice is the centre of cultural and economic life in Upper Silesia (Gorny Slask), a region in south eastern Poland.