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Place in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland
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Piła is an industrial city of 74,000 people (2017) in the northern part of the Wielkopolskie province in Poland. The city is located on the Gwda river and is famous for its green areas, parks and dense forests nearby.
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By train
There is one railway station in the city - Piła Główna - and three passenger stops - Piła Podlasie on line 203 and Piła Kalina and Piła Leszków (closed since 2008) on line 354.
By bicycle
Several transit tourist bicycle routes pass through the city:
By car
National and provincial roads running through Piła:
Miejski Zakład Komunikacji operates 18 bus lines, one of which (Line 50) leaves the administrative borders of the city, going to Ujście and Mirosław. The MZK fleet is mostly low-floor.
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