Chełm Śląski (; ) is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

Bieruń-Lędziny County __NOTOC__ Bieruń-Lędziny County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in ...

Silesian Voivodeship Silesian Voivodeship ( ) is an administrative province in southern Poland. With over 4.2 million residents and an area of 12,300 square kilometers, it is the second-most populous, and the most-densely populated and most-urbanized region of Poland ...

, in southern Poland. It is the seat of the

gmina The gmina (Polish: , plural ''gminy'' ) is the basic unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a municipality. , there were 2,479 gminy throughout the country, encompassing over 43,000 villages. 940 gminy include cities and tow ...

(administrative district) called

Gmina Chełm Śląski __NOTOC__ Gmina Chełm Śląski is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Bieruń-Lędziny County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. Its seat is the village of Chełm Śląski ("Silesian Chelm"), which lies approximately east of Bieru� ...

. It lies approximately east of

Bieruń Bieruń (, ) is a town in Upper Silesia, in southern Poland, seat of the Bieruń-Lędziny County in the Silesian Voivodeship. It is located about south of Katowice. Geography It is located in the Silesian Highlands, on the Gostynia river, a ...

and south-east of the regional capital

Katowice Katowice (, ) is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Katowice urban area. As of 2021, Katowice has an official population of 286,960, and a resident population estimate of around 315,000. K ...

. The village serves as the administrative seat of the Chełm Śląski Commune. Between 1975 and 1998, the village belonged administratively to the Katowice Voivodeship. On December 30, 1994, Chełm Śląski and Imielin were separated fro
Mysłowice
One of the village's best known people is the missionary scholar and priest, Father Andrzej Halemba.

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Villages in Bieruń-Lędziny County {{Bieruń-Lędziny-geo-stub