Miasteczko Śląskie
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Key facts
- Country
- Poland
- Voivodeship
- Silesian
- County
- Tarnowskie Góry
- Gmina
- Miasteczko Śląskie (urban gmina)
- Established
- 16th century
- Mayor
- Michał Skrzydło
- Total
- 67.94 km (26.23 sq mi)
- Density
- 103.7/km (268.5/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Postal code
- 40-001 to 40-999
- Area code
- +48 32
- Car plates
- STA
- Website
- http://www.miasteczko-slaskie.pl
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Poland
- Located in
- Tarnowskie Góry county
- Continent
- Europe
- Population
- 7103
- Area
- 67.83
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Gmina Woźniki
- Official website
- www.miasteczko-slaskie.pl
- Image
- Miasteczko Śląskie Rynek 08.jpg
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- Commons category
- Miasteczko Śląskie
- Commons gallery
- Miasteczko Śląskie
- postal code
- 42-610
- P11012
- Ottoman–Safavid War
- male population
- 3429
- female population
- 3674
- P8168
- Saitis mundus
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Encyclopedic overview
Miasteczko Śląskie [mʲasˈtɛt͡ʂkɔ ˈɕlɔ̃skʲɛ] (originally Żyglińskie Góry; formerly also Miasteczko; German: Georgenberg) is a town in Upper Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. It borders the Metropolis GZM - a large metropolitan area with a population of over 2 million. It is located in the Silesian Highlands.
It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship since its formation in 1999, previously in Katowice Voivodeship, and before World War II, in the Autonomous Silesian Voivodeship. Miasteczko Śląskie is one of the towns within the Katowice urban area and within the greater Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan area with a population of about 5,294,000 people. The population of the town is 7,437 (2019).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Miasteczko Śląskie” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.