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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
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Czeski Cieszyn
- Country
- Czech Republic
- Located in
- Karviná District
- Population
- 23075
- Area
- 33.8
- Elevation
- 270
- Head of government
- Karel Kula
- Shares border with
- Třanovice
- Official website
- www.tesin.cz
- Image
- Radnice v Českém Těšíně.jpg
- Licence plate code
- T
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- topic's main category
- Category:Český Těšín
- twinned administrative body
- Cieszyn
- Commons category
- Český Těšín
- postal code
- 735 62
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Český Těšín
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Český Těšín
- time of earliest written record
- 1155-01-17
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- native label
- Czeski Cieszyn
- historical region
- Czech Silesia
- P6482
- Český Těšín
- number of houses
- 2925
- mean age
- 43.6
- phone number
- +420-553-035-111
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Český Těšín” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.