Szczecin agglomeration is theurban agglomeration of the city ofSzczecin and surrounding towns^[3] in thePolish-German border area.

Szczecin metropolitan area Aglomeracja szczecińska
Urban area
From top, left to right: Skyline ofSzczecin City Hall and Market Square inStargard Port of Szczecin Stawa Młyny inŚwinoujście Medieval town walls inGartz
Map of the Szczecin agglomeration (range of the agglomeration according to Swianiewicz) within Poland
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	West Pomeranian
Largest city	Szczecin
Area
• Metro	2,795 km2 (1,079 sq mi)
Population
• Metro	750,000
• Metro density	270/km2 (690/sq mi)
GDP [1][2]
• Metro	€12.101 billion (2020)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Primary airport	Solidarity Szczecin–Goleniów Airport
Highways

TheLarger Urban Zone defined byEurostat includes 777,806 people living on 5249 km² in the area (2012).^[4] It includes the cities and towns ofStargard,Świnoujście,Police,Schwedt,Goleniów,Gryfino,Prenzlau,Pasewalk,Ueckermünde,Eggesin,Gartz,Stepnica,Penkun,Brüssow andNowe Warpno.There are a group of villages situated between Szczecin and towns of the agglomeration. The villages ofMierzyn,Löcknitz,Przecław,Dobra,Trzebież andKobylanka are parts of the urban system.

It is the second largest metropolitan area in Pomerania after theTricity metropolitan area.

Since 2012, the agglomeration is actively developed as the core of a wider Europeanmetropolitan area, likely including the German districts ofMecklenburgische Seenplatte,Vorpommern-Greifswald,Uckermark and theWest Pomeranian districts neighbouring Szczecin in Poland.^[5]

The German part of the Szczecin metropolitan area contains municipalities with some of the highest percentages of Polish residents in Germany, such asGartz,Löcknitz andMescherin.

The ports ofSzczecin,Świnoujście andPolice are located within the metropolitan area.

The local airport is theSolidarity Szczecin–Goleniów Airport nearGoleniów, whereas the main railway station is theSzczecin Główny railway station, with direct connections to other major cities in Poland, such asWarsaw,Kraków,Wrocław,Łódź,Poznań,Tricity,Bydgoszcz,Lublin,Białystok andKatowice.

TheŚwinoujście LNG terminal is located in Świnoujście.

Historic landmarks of the Szczecin metropolitan area include theDucal Castle andNational Museum in Szczecin, the GothicCollegiate church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Stargard and theKołbacz Abbey, with the latter two listed asHistoric Monuments of Poland.^[6][7]

Świnoujście, the third largest city of the metropolitan area, is aspa town. TheŚwinoujście Lighthouse is the tallest brick lighthouse in the world. The War Cemetery in Stargard is the burial place of over 5,000 Allied soldiers and prisoners of war from both world wars, including Polish, French, Serbian/Yugoslav, Russian/Soviet, Italian, Romanian, Belgian, British, Moroccan, Portuguese and Dutch. There is a memorial to British pilots of theNo. 617 Squadron RAF shot down by Germany inKarsibór, Świnoujście.

A notable phenomenon on a worldly scale is theCrooked Forest outside the town ofGryfino.

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  National Museum in Szczecin
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  Historic tenement houses inŚwinoujście
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  Port of Police
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  Medieval Mill Gate inPasewalk

• Metropolitan areas in Poland