Key facts
- Country
- Poland
- Voivodeship
- Silesian
- County
- Wodzisław Śląski
- Gmina
- Wodzisław Śląski (urban gmina)
- Named after
- Vladislaus I of Opole
- City mayor
- Mieczysław Kieca
- City
- 49.62 km (19.16 sq mi)
- Highest elevation
- 290 m (950 ft)
- Lowest elevation
- 210 m (690 ft)
- Density
- 967.2/km (2,505/sq mi)
- Metro
- 650,000
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
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Wodzisław Śląski ( Polish: [vɔˈd͡ʑiswaf ˈɕlɔ̃skʲi] ; German: Loslau, Czech: Vladislav, Latin: Vladislavia, Yiddish: וואידסלוב, romanized: Voydislav, Silesian: Władźisłůw) is a town in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland with 47,992 inhabitants (2019). It is the seat of Wodzisław County.
It was previously in Katowice Voivodeship (1975–1998); close to the border with the Czech Republic, about 350 kilometres (217 miles) south of Warsaw and about 140 kilometres (87 miles) west of Kraków, on the southern outskirts of the metropolitan area known as the Upper Silesian Coal Basin.