Miasteczko Śląskie [mʲasˈtɛt͡ʂkɔ ˈɕlɔ̃skʲɛ] (originally Żyglińskie Góry German: Georgenberg) is a small town in Upper Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. Borders on the Metropolis GZM - metropolis with the population of 2 million. Located in the Silesian Highlands.

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Miasteczko Śląskie
Town square
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Miasteczko Śląskie
Coordinates: 50°29′N 18°54′E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Silesian
County	Tarnowskie Góry
Gmina	Miasteczko Śląskie (urban gmina)
Established	16th century
Government
• Mayor	Michał Skrzydło
Area
• Total	67.94 km2 (26.23 sq mi)
Population  (2022-01-01[1])
• Total	7,044
• Density	100/km2 (270/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	40-001 to 40-999
Area code	+48 32
Car plates	STA
Website	http://www.miasteczko-slaskie.pl

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It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship since its formation in 1999, previously in Katowice Voivodeship, and before World War II, in the Autonomous Silesian Voivodeship. Miasteczko Śląskie is one of the towns of the 2.7 million conurbation – Katowice urban area and within a greater Upper Silesian-Moravian metropolitan area populated by about 5,294,000 people.^[2] The population of the town is 7,437 (2019).

The largest factory in the town is the Miasteczko Śląskie Zinc Smelter. This metallurgical plant was originally built under license for the British company Imperial Smelting Processes of Bristol. Now a modern plant, ore processing is carried out in a continuous process, producing both zinc and lead. The complex comprises: a sintering plant, a sulphuric acid plant, a rotary furnace, and a lead refinery.

During the 1970s and 1980s, the smelter was a major source of atmospheric emissions of lead and other heavy metals in the northern part of the Katowice Voivodeship. In the early 1990s, several sections of the plant were closed, and modern abatement equipment was installed on the sections left working. This led to the net reduction of heavy metal emissions to air.