Otwock


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Otwock

 

a city in Poland, within the Warsaw metropolitan area, in Warsaw Województwo. Population, 42,000 (1973). The chief industry is food processing. It is the site of the Nuclear Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

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