text: Kraków (IPA: (help·info)); in English spelled Krakow or Cracow (Eng, M-W: krăk'ou, krāk'ō), German: Krakau, is the third largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland, with a population of 756,267 in 2006 (1,401,937 in the Kraków-Tarnów sub-region).