Nowy Tomyśl (german: Neutomischel) is a town in western

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...

, in

Greater Poland Voivodeship Greater Poland Voivodeship ( pl, Województwo wielkopolskie; ), also known as Wielkopolska Voivodeship, Wielkopolska Province, or Greater Poland Province, is a voivodeship, or province, in west-central Poland. It was created on 1 January 1999 ...

. It is the capital of

Nowy Tomyśl County __NOTOC__ Nowy Tomyśl County ( pl, powiat nowotomyski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Greater Poland Voivodeship, west-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local ...

. The population is 15,627 (2004). The town has a long tradition of wickerwork. In the main town square stands a wicker basket woven in 2006, measuring long, 9 m wide and 7.7 m high, entered in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's largest basket. The town also has a Museum of Basketry and Hop Growing, which is one of the branches of the

National Museum of Agriculture in Szreniawa The National Museum of Agriculture in Szreniawa ( pl, Muzeum Narodowe Rolnictwa i Przemysłu Rolno-Spożywczego w Szreniawie, full name: ''National Museum of Agriculture and Agricultural-Food Industry in Szreniawa'') is a museum whose main site is ...

. Next to the museum is a small

zoo A zoo (short for zoological garden; also called an animal park or menagerie) is a facility in which animals are kept within enclosures for public exhibition and often bred for conservation purposes. The term ''zoological garden'' refers to zoo ...

. Since 2012, Nowy Tomyśl has been the site of one of the tallest wind turbines in the world.

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* Cities and towns in Greater Poland Voivodeship Nowy Tomyśl County Poznań Voivodeship (1921–1939) {{NowyTomyśl-geo-stub