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GKS Bełchatów

PGE GKS Bełchatów [ˌpɛɡʲɛˈʔɛ ˌɡʲɛkaˈɛs bɛwˈxatuf] is a professional football club that competes in the Polish First League. GKS is an abbreviation for the Miners' Sport Club .

Zawiercie
Zawiercie

Zawiercie [zaˈvʲɛrt͡ɕɛ] is a city in the Silesian Voivodeship of southern Poland with 51,880 inhabitants . It is situated in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland near the source of the Warta River.

Zawiercie County
Zawiercie County

Zawiercie County is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998.

Bełchatów
Bełchatów

Bełchatów ; German: Belchental) is a town in central Poland with a population of 58,326 (2016). It is located in Łódź Voivodeship, 160 kilometres (99 miles) from Warsaw.

Bełchatów Power Station
Bełchatów Power Station

The Bełchatów Power Station is the world's largest lignite-fired power station situated near Bełchatów in Łódź Voivodeship, Poland. It is the largest thermal power station in Europe, although close to the output of the Gravelines Nuclear power plant at 5460 MW, which also produces more electric energy, and second largest fossil-fuel power station in the world.

Bełchatów County
Bełchatów County

Bełchatów County is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Łódź Voivodeship, central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998.

Gmina Bełchatów

Gmina Bełchatów is a rural gmina in Bełchatów County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. Its seat is the town of Bełchatów, although the town is not part of the territory of the gmina.

Bełchatów Coal Mine
Bełchatów Coal Mine

The Bełchatów coal mine is a large mine in the centre of Poland in Bełchatów, Łódź Voivodeship, 150 km west of the capital, Warsaw. Bełchatów represents one of the largest coal reserve in Poland having estimated reserves of 1,930 million tonnes of lignite coal.