Augustów Canal
The canal crosses the area in long, deliberate lines, with locks marking its route through lakes and rivers, a piece of nineteenth-century engineering still clearly legible on the map.
Minimalist map poster · Poland
53.8432° N / 22.9798° E
A lakeside town threaded between forest, open water and the historic Augustów Canal in northeastern Poland

One city, five moods
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The map
Augustów lies in the Podlasie region of northeastern Poland, surrounded by the lakes and woodland of the Augustów Forest. The town was founded in the sixteenth century and named after King Sigismund II Augustus. Its compact centre, built around a spacious market square, sits on a narrow stretch of land between lakes, with water visible on almost every side of the map.
The defining feature is the Augustów Canal, a nineteenth-century waterway built to link the Vistula and Neman basins, which continues across the border into Belarus. Its locks and straight sections cut through the landscape, joining rivers and lakes along the way. From above, the town reads as a band of streets threaded between water and forest.
An Augustów map poster suits this lake-and-forest setting especially well. The dark masses of woodland and the clean outlines of the lakes give the design strong contrast, while the grid of the old centre adds finer detail at its core. It is a natural choice for anyone who spends summers here on the water or grew up in the town.
The canal crosses the area in long, deliberate lines, with locks marking its route through lakes and rivers, a piece of nineteenth-century engineering still clearly legible on the map.
Lakes Necko and Białe lie right beside the town, giving the map broad, smooth shapes of open water that frame the streets on more than one side.
The historic centre is organised around a large square, with a regular grid of streets around it that stands out as the densest part of the poster.
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Add a date, a name or a line of your own, switch style, size or orientation.
The free preview is low-resolution with a watermark. Prints and HD files are rendered at 300 DPI, up to 7,200 × 10,800 px, without a watermark.
Why Augustów
Augustów is a place of summer holidays, kayak trips and long walks in the forest, as well as home to thousands of people year-round. A map of its lakes and canal is a calm way to keep those memories in view.
Personalise the title and subtitle, perhaps with the year of a first holiday here, and the coordinates line. Choose Classic black & white, Noir, Paper, Blueprint or Sand, and download 300 DPI files for $9 or order a matte printed poster.
Order the Augustów poster| Print size | Resolution | Files |
|---|---|---|
| 30 × 40 cm11.8 × 15.7″ | 3,543 × 4,724 px | PNG · PDF |
| 29.7 × 42 cm (A3)11.7 × 16.5″ | 3,508 × 4,961 px | PNG · PDF |
| 42 × 59.4 cm (A2)16.5 × 23.4″ | 4,961 × 7,016 px | PNG · PDF |
| 45.7 × 61 cm18 × 24″ | 5,400 × 7,200 px | PNG · PDF |
| 50 × 70 cm19.7 × 27.6″ | 5,906 × 8,268 px | PNG · PDF |
| 61 × 91.4 cm24 × 36″ | 7,200 × 10,800 px | PNG · PDF |
For comparison, the free preview is 900 px wide, watermarked and meant for screens. The HD files have up to 8× the resolution in each direction and print cleanly at full poster size.
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It is printed on premium 200 gsm matte paper in one of six sizes, from 30 × 40 cm to 24 × 36″. Printed posters start at $39, shipping included.
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Yes. In the editor on this page, change the title, the subtitle and the coordinates line to anything you like, and pick a style and size. Printed, framed and digital orders all use exactly your design.
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