Borkowo

A settlement in Poland.

English name

Borkowo — Current official Polish Borkowo retained in English; the older English reference heading Borkowo Łostowickie preserves the pre-2003 name.

Other forms in use:

• Borkowo Łostowickie — Former official qualified name used through 2002, still retained as the English encyclopedia heading; present official name is Borkowo.
• Borkowo Lostowickie — Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Borkowo Łostowickie for English retrieval; independent prose frequency unverified.

French name

Borkowo — Same as in English; current Polish name retained for French readers, with no independently verified French exonym.

About

Borkowo is a village directly south of Gdańsk in northern Poland. It belongs to the rural municipality of Pruszcz Gdański and borders the city's Lipce and Maćkowy neighbourhoods.

Notes

Current official Borkowo overrides older English heading Borkowo Łostowickie. Polish national place-name register records the latter through 2002. Not Borkowo in Kartuzy County. https://www.borkowo.eu/informacje/ ; https://pzgik.geoportal.gov.pl/prng/Miejscowosc/PL.PZGiK.204.PRNG.00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000008784-6518 Independent French locality-reference attestation is limited. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q168814 ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borkowo_Łostowickie.

Identifiers: Wikidata Q168814 · JSON

This page as Markdown: https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/poland/borkowo/