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Mikołów
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Mikołów (, ) is a city in Silesia, in southern Poland, near the city of Katowice. Outer town of the Metropolis GZM, a metropolis with a population of over 2 million, and is within a greater Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan area populated by about 5,294,000 people. The population of the town is 40,898 (2019). Located in the Silesian Highlands, on the Jamna stream, a tributary of the Kłodnica River and indirectly the Oder.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Mikołów
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Mikołów - Ratusz2.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 260px
- Settlement.image_caption
- Market Square and Town Hall
- Settlement.image_shield
- POL Mikołów COA.svg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Poland#Poland Silesian Voivodeship
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Voivodeship
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- 22px Silesian
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Mikołów
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Gmina
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Mikołów (urban gmina)
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Stanisław Piechula
- Settlement.established_title
- First mentioned
- Settlement.established_date
- 1222
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Official name
- Mikołów
- Country
- Poland
- Located in
- Mikołów County
- Continent
- Europe
- Population
- 41266
- Area
- 79.2
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Ruda Śląska
- Official website
- www.mikolow.um.gov.pl
- Image
- Mikołów Rynek w Mikołowie Marketplace Panorama.jpg
- Licence plate code
- SMI
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- Mikołów
- Commons category
- Mikołów
- twinned administrative body
- Ilava
- native label
- Mikołów
- inception
- 1222-00-00
- postal code
- 43-190–43-197
- P8168
- Gerhard Wimberger
- male population
- 19814
- female population
- 21452
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- History
- World War II
- Jewish history
- Districts
- Notable people
- Twin towns – sister cities
- References
- External links
Mikołów (, ) is a city in Silesia, in southern Poland, near the city of Katowice. Outer town of the Metropolis GZM, a metropolis with a population of over 2 million, and is within a greater Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan area populated by about 5,294,000 people. The population of the town is 40,898 (2019). Located in the Silesian Highlands, on the Jamna stream, a tributary of the Kłodnica River and indirectly the Oder.
It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship since its formation in 1999, previously in Katowice Voivodeship, and before then, of the Silesian Voivodeship.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mikołów” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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