(Lithuanian: Suvalkai, Yiddish: Suwałk; German: Suwalken) is a town in northeastern Poland with 69,100 inhabitants (2003). The Czarna Hańcza river flows through the town.It is the capital of the Suwałki County and one of the most important centres of commerce in the Podlachian Voivodeship. Until 1999 the town was the capital of Suwałki Voivodeship. Suwałki is located about 30 km from the southwestern Lithuanian border. One Lithuanian ethnographic region is sometimes named Suvalkija, and that name came from this town; although Sūduva is the preferred name for that region, in English it is known as Sudovia.
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