Raków, Warsaw
Raków | |
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City Information System area (neighbourhood) | |
The apartment buildings at Rakowska Street, in front of the Faience Clay Pits. | |
Raków within the Włochy district. | |
| Coordinates: 52°11′50.35″N 20°57′00.56″E / 52.1973194°N 20.9501556°E | |
| Country | Poland |
| Voivodeship | Masovian |
| City county | Warsaw |
| District | Włochy |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Area code | +48 22 |
Raków (Polish: [ˈrak.uf]) is a neighbourhood, and a City Information System area, in Warsaw, Poland, within the Włochy district. It is a residential area, featuring apartment buildings, and to a lesser extend, single-family detached houses. It also includes the Centrum Łopuszańska 22 shopping mall. Raków was founded in the 13th century, and by the 1920s, it became part of the village of Okęcie. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the manufacturing industry developed in the area. It was incorporated into the city in 1951. Throughout 2010s and 2020s, Raków transformed into a residential neighbourhood with apartment buildings.