Mikołów
Mikołów | |
|---|---|
Market Square and Town Hall | |
|
Coat of arms | |
Mikołów Mikołów | |
| Coordinates: 50°10′N 18°54′E / 50.167°N 18.900°E | |
| Country | Poland |
| Voivodeship | Silesian |
| County | Mikołów |
| Gmina | Mikołów (urban gmina) |
| First mentioned | 1222 |
| Town rights | 1547 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Stanisław Piechula |
| Area | |
• City | 79.2 km2 (30.6 sq mi) |
| Population (2019-06-30) | |
• City | 40,898 |
| • Density | 516/km2 (1,340/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 2,746,000 |
| • Metro | 5,294,000 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 43–190 to 43–197 |
| Area code | +48 32 |
| Car plates | SMI |
| Climate | Dfb |
| Primary airport | Katowice Airport |
| National roads | |
| Voivodeship roads | |
| Website | https://mikolow.eu/ |
Mikołów [miˈkɔwuf] (German: Nikolai, Silesian: Mikołōw) 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.