Gorzów lies close to two rivers: the Vistula and Przemsza, on a wide and flat terrace common to both rivers, area of 391 hectares.
Józef Michalik (born April 20, 1941 in Zambrów) is a Polish Roman Catholic bishop, the diocesan Bishop of the Zielona Góra-Gorzów diocese in 1986-1993 (to 1992 of Gorzów), Archbishop of Przemyśl in 1993, and the President of the Polish Episcopal Conference since 2004.
The Adam Mickiewicz monument in Gorzów Wielkopolski is a notable Gorzów Wielkopolski statue, located near a cross of Lwów Eaglets Street and Władysław Sikorski Street.
In European Parliament election, 2009 (Poland) he was elected and became MEP, candidating from the second place in the list of Civic Platform Gorzów County and receiving 25 875 votes.
In the administrative reforms of 1998, the original proposals made no provision for a separate Lubusz voivodeship – Gorzów would have been part of West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Zielona Góra would have been in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (Province of Lebus or Palatinate of Lebus) , and other parts of the region were assigned to Greater Poland Voivodeship.
It is located 1 km east of the Lubniewka River, a regional tributary of the Warta River, and 2 km southward from the railway line leading from Gorzów Wielkopolski to Kostrzyn nad Odrą.