Photo location game · Europe
Poland landmarks quiz: guess where 19 photos were taken
19 photos taken in Poland, each marked on the map with a line about the place. Each round picks five.
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Five photos from Poland. Tap the map for each one and see how far off you were.
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Where they are
19 on the mapAll 19 places
Europe's largest medieval square with the Cloth Hall.
Photo: Igor123121 / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Tall, ornate merchant houses on a Baltic trading street.
Photo: Richardmaackphotography / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A colourful market square built across river islands.
Photo: Maksym Kozlenko / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A pioneering reinforced-concrete dome from 1913, once the largest in the world.
Photo: Jar.ciurus / CC BY-SA 3.0 pl, via Wikimedia Commons
Warsaw's Stalinist skyscraper, a 1955 gift from the Soviet Union.
Photo: A.Savin / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Baltic island of long sandy beaches, shared by Germany and Poland.
Photo: Zeppelubil / Th. Haft, from Torgau / Elbe, Germany / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Eastern Poland's largest city, with a Renaissance old town and a royal castle.
Photo: Pankrzysztoff / CC BY-SA 3.0 pl, via Wikimedia Commons
A modernist port city built from nothing in the 1920s to give Poland a harbour.
Photo: Kontrola / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Polish river city with granaries on the Brda and a tightrope-walker statue.
Photo: Jan Paweł Bochen / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Copernicus's birthplace, a red-brick Gothic old town on the Vistula.
Photo: Andrzej Otrębski / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Poland's holiest shrine, home of the Black Madonna icon.
Photo: Ebielmaj / CC BY-SA 3.0 pl, via Wikimedia Commons
The heart of Poland's coal region, now a UNESCO City of Music.
Photo: Thepoweroflight / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The largest timber-framed churches in Europe, built in the 1650s from wood, loam and straw because stone was not allowed.
Photo: Jar.ciurus / CC BY-SA 3.0 pl, via Wikimedia Commons
Poland's highest peak at 2,499 metres, on the Slovak border in the High Tatras.
Photo: Milan Bališin / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The largest castle in the world by area, brick headquarters of the Teutonic Knights.
Photo: DerHexer; derivate work: Carschten / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The largest castle in Silesia, on a rock above a gorge, with Nazi tunnels beneath.
Photo: Jar.ciurus / CC BY-SA 3.0 pl, via Wikimedia Commons
The Polish kings' castle, rebuilt brick by brick after its destruction in 1944.
Photo: Marcin Białek / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
North-eastern Poland's largest city, with a baroque palace called the 'Versailles of Podlasie'.
Photo: Emilia Ernst / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Poland's largest church, a 1990s basilica with a 141-metre tower in a village.
Photo: Czechu81 / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHow to place them
Usedom is the furthest west and Białystok the furthest east, 610 km apart. Learn where Old Town, Wrocław is and you are close on four photos, because Centennial Hall, Churches of Peace and Książ Castle and park complex are all within 75 km of it. Usedom is far from everything else here; the closest place to it is Bydgoszcz, 270 km away.
By rating, the photos are four easy, eight medium and seven hard. Photos rated hard include Gdynia, Bydgoszcz and Toruń. Usedom, Katowice, Rysy and Malbork Castle are rated easy. Centennial Hall is a pioneering reinforced-concrete dome from 1913, once the largest in the world.
The daily in the app mixes photos from all 167 countries in the game, five a day, the same five for everyone.
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How many places in Poland are in the game?
19 places. Gdynia is the furthest north and Rysy the furthest south.
What is the hardest photo from Poland?
The hard ones include Gdynia, Bydgoszcz and Toruń. You lose half the points for every 693 km you miss by.
Which photo is the easiest to score full points on?
Try Usedom. Anything within 60 km of it counts as a direct hit.