Zgorzelec (German: Görlitz, Upper Sorbian: Zhorjelc) is a town in
south-western Poland with 32,322 inhabitants (2012). It lies in Lower
Silesian Voivodeship (from 1975–1998 it was in the former Jelenia Góra
Voivodeship). It is the seat of Zgorzelec County, and also of the smaller
district of Gmina Zgorzelec (although it is not part of the territory of the
latter, as the town is an urban gmina in its own right). Zgorzelec is
located on the Lusatian Neisse river, on the post-1945 Polish-German Neisse
border adjoining the German town of Görlitz, of which it constituted the
eastern part up to 1945.
The flag of the Zgorzelec rural commune is divided, horizontally
yellow-green.
Jens Pattke, 30 Aug 2014