Terespol

Infobox Settlement
name = Terespol
image_shield = Terespol herb.svg
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pushpin_label_position = bottom
subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = POL
subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship
subdivision_name1 = Lublin
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Biała Podlaska
subdivision_type3 = Gmina
subdivision_name3 = Terespol (urban gmina)
leader_title = Mayor
leader_name = Jacek Danieluk
area_total_km2 = 10.11
population_as_of = 2006
population_total = 5969
population_density_km2 = auto
timezone = CET
utc_offset = +1
timezone_DST = CEST
utc_offset_DST = +2
latd = 52 | latm = 5 | lats = | latNS = N | longd = 23 | longm = 34 | longs = | longEW = E
postal_code_type = Postal code
postal_code = 21-550
blank_name = Car plates
blank_info = LBI
website = http://www.terespol-m.netbip.pl/ Terespol [IPA-pl|t|e|'|r|e|s|p|o|l] is a town in eastern Poland on the border with Belarus. It lies on the border river Bug, directly opposite the city of Brest, Belarus. It has 6002 inhabitants (2004).

It is situated in Biała Podlaska County in Lublin Voivodeship (since 1999, before it belonged to Biała Podlaska Voivodeship between 1975 and 1998).

The town is a busy border crossing between Poland and Belarus on theroute Berlin-Warsaw-Minsk-Moscow. Around it one can find some of the old fortifications that were once part of the Brest Fortress.

Terespol features in a novel by the Yiddish Nobel Prize-winning writer Isaac Bashevis Singer, "The Family Moskat" (1950), in which the young protagonist, Asa Heshel Bennet, comes to Warsaw from his hometown of Terespol Minor to study. It is characterized as a typical backwater, Eastern European small town.

ister cities

*flagicon|Belarus Brest, Belarus