Nowa Huta

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Nowa Huta (IPA pronounced [ˈnɔva ˈxuta], literally "The New Ironworks") is the easternmost district of Kraków, Poland. With more than 200,000 inhabitants, it is one of the most populous areas of the city. Until 1990, the neighbouring districts were considered expansions of the original Nowa Huta district, and were linked by the same tramway system. Today, the district formally known as Nowa Huta has been divided into several smaller districts. Nowa Huta is one of the largest planned socialist realist settlements or districts ever built (another being Magnitogorsk in Russia) in the entire world. Built as a planned ideal city, its street hierarchy, layout and certain scale of architecture bear similarities of Paris or London. The abundance of parks and green areas in Nowa Huta make it one of the greenest corners in Kraków.

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