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Krosno (in full The Royal Free City of Krosno, ) is a town and county in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland with 47,140 inhabitants (Metro: 115,617), as of 30 June 2014.
Krosno is a medieval fortified town, a former Royal Free Town, a centre of cloth, linen, canvas, baize and Hungarian wine trade. Until recently it was a provincial capital. Today it is a medium-sized town with a population of fifty thousand, ranking sixth among Polish towns with the best living conditions. This evident success appears understandable when one looks at the history of the town.
Center of regional and subregional levels. The seat of several institutions of supra-local: Regional Directorate of State Forests, Subcarpathian Provincial Veterinary Inspectorate, the District Election Commission, the Court and the Prosecutor's Office of the District, the District Mining Office, Regional Centre Road, the Sub-Carpathian Regional Hospital, Subcarpathian Center for Teacher Education, the Customs Office, the Institute of Oil and gas and Sucha Góra TV Tower.
Notably Krosno is the site of the first oil well (or "mine") in the world.
Krosno is a town in south-eastern Poland.
Krosno may also refer to:
- Krosno Odrzańskie, a town in Lubusz Voivodeship (west Poland)
- Krosno, Podlaskie Voivodeship (north-east Poland)
- Krosno, Łódź Voivodeship (central Poland)
- Krosno, Poznań County in Greater Poland Voivodeship (west-central Poland)
- Krosno, Wągrowiec County in Greater Poland Voivodeship (west-central Poland)
- Krosno, Elbląg County in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship (north Poland)
- Krosno, Lidzbark County in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship (north Poland)