According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Poland, obtaining the status of the city means changing the image and greater prestige for the locality. This can bring significant benefits in terms of investment attractiveness, as well as the possibility of obtaining funds related to the development of cities.

Thus, the status of the city was granted to the towns of Jozefow nad Vistla, Otyn, Sanniki, Tulovice, Wislitsa, Lagowe and Radoszyce in different parts of the country.

Five of the seven cities had previously had this status, but at various times they lost it. To date, there are 930 cities in Poland.

As previously reported in URA-Inform, the American cities of New York, San Francisco and Philadelphia filed a lawsuit in the Federal Court of Virginia against the US Department of Defense.