Sławków
Sign in to saveSławków () is a town in the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland, located in the Zagłębie Dąbrowskie (part of historic province of Lesser Poland), near Katowice. Outer town of the Metropolis GZM – a metropolis with a population of around 2 million. The population of the town is 7,017 (2019). It is the western terminus of the Broad Gauge Metallurgy Line.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Sławków
- Settlement.native_name
- Sławkůw
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- szl
- Settlement.image_flag
- POL Sławków flag.svg
- Settlement.image_shield
- POL Sławków COA.svg
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Slawkow town hall.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Town hall
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Poland
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- top
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Voivodeship
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Będzin
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Gmina
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Sławków (urban gmina)
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 36.6
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2019-06-30
- Settlement.population_total
- 7017
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Location
- History
- Points of interest
- Demographics
- Broad gauge railway
- Twin towns – sister cities
- References
- External links
Sławków () is a town in the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland, located in the Zagłębie Dąbrowskie (part of historic province of Lesser Poland), near Katowice. Outer town of the Metropolis GZM – a metropolis with a population of around 2 million. The population of the town is 7,017 (2019). It is the western terminus of the Broad Gauge Metallurgy Line.
==Location== Sławków is located in western Lesser Poland, from Katowice, and from Kraków, in Kraków-Silesia Upland (part of Lesser Poland Upland), on the Biała Przemsza river. The town borders Dąbrowa Górnicza, Sosnowiec, Jaworzno and Bukowno. Apart from its historic center, Sławków has 25 smaller districts, and as much as 35% of the town is covered by forests. The name of the town comes from ancient Slavic given name Sławomir (Sławko, Sławek), and can be translated as The settlement of Sławko.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sławków” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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