Key facts
- Country
- Czech Republic
- Region
- Moravian-Silesian
- District
- Karviná
- Mayor
- Karel Kula
- Total
- 33.79 km (13.05 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 270 m (890 ft)
- Density
- 676.8/km (1,753/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Postal codes
- 735 62, 737 01
- Website
- www .tesin .cz
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
Český Těšín ( Czech: [ˈtʃɛskiː ˈcɛʃiːn] ; Polish: Czeski Cieszyn; German: Tschechisch-Teschen) is a town in Karviná District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 23,000 inhabitants.
Český Těšín lies on the west bank of the Olza River, in the heart of the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia. Until the 1920 division of the region between Poland and Czechoslovakia it was just a western suburb of the town of Teschen, which after the division fell to Poland as Cieszyn. The combined population of the Czech and Polish parts of the town is around 55,000.