Chojnice is a town in northern Poland with 38,789 inhabitants, as of June 2023, near the Tuchola Forest. It is the capital of the Chojnice County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship. Founded in c. 1205, Chojnice is a former royal city of Poland and was an important center of cloth production in Poland. It is the location of one of the oldest high schools in Poland, and was an important center of Polish youth resistance against the Germanisation policies of Prussia following the Partitions of Poland. It was the site of several significant battles, and during World War II German occupiers massacred some 2,000 Poles on its outskirts.
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