Kleszczele
Kleszczele is a town in Hajnówka County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, north-eastern Poland. Prior to 1999, it was in Białystok Voivodeship.Demography
The most spoken languages in Kleszczele according to the Russian Imperial Census of 1897:
| Language | Population | Proportion |
| Ukrainian | 1087 | 54.00 % |
| Jewish | 710 | 35.27 % |
| Russian | 114 | 5.66 % |
| Polish | 91 | 4.52 % |
| German | 11 | 0.55 % |
| Total | 2013 | 100.00 % |
The Yiddish playwright Peretz Hirschbein was born in Kleszczele in 1881.
