Pszczyna (German Pless) is a town in southern Poland with 26,827 inhabitants (2003) within the immediate gmina rising to 50,121 inhabitants in the powiat , which includes the town of Pszczyna, itself, Brzeźce (1041), Czarków (1852), Ćwiklice (2569), Jankowice (2591), Łąka (2729), Piasek (3252), Poręba (924), Rudołtowice (1111), Studzionka (2176), Studzienice (1612), Wisła Mała (1323) and Wisła Wielka (2114).
Situated in the Silesian Voivodship (since 1999), previously in Katowice Voivodship (1975–1998).
The total of 17,409ha area includes 9466ha of farmland (6799ha of arable land, 151ha of orchards, 1611ha of meadows, 905ha of pasture) and 5127ha of forest grounds (4971ha of forests and forest landasy, 156ha of tree-planted and shrub-planted land). (Pszczyna in figures, 2003)
The name of Pszczyna is known to every student for being an exception to the Polish spelling rule that there is always “rz” instead of “sz” after “p” and for appearing in a tongue-twister, used by Jan Brzechwa in his poem Chrząszcz.
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