Banzkow

{{Infobox German location

|image_coa = Wapen Banzkow.svg

|image_photo = Banzkow.jpg

|image_caption = View from the West

|coordinates = {{coord|53|31|N|11|31|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

|image_plan = Banzkow in LUP.svg

|plantext =

|state = Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

|district = Ludwigslust-Parchim

|Amt = Crivitz

|elevation = 38

|area = 52.28

|postal_code = 19079

|area_code = 03861, 03868

|licence = LUP, HGN, LBZ, LWL, PCH, STB

|Gemeindeschlüssel = 13 0 76 005

|divisions = 2

|website = [https://www.gemeinde-banzkow.de/ Gemeinde Banzkow]

|mayor = Guido Klüver

|party = independent

}}

Banzkow ({{Langx|pl|Bączków}}){{Cite web |date=1937 |title=Altas nazw geograficznych słowianszczyny zachodniej |url=http://web.archive.org/web/20140714154235/http://www.mapywig.org/m_documents/PL/ATLAS_NAZW_GEOGRAFICZNYCH_SLOWIANSZCZYZNY_ZACHODNIEJ_ZESZYT_IIA.pdf}} is a municipality in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Since 2009 it has included Goldenstädt.

From 1992 to 2009 Solveig Leo, who achieved celebrity status as the youngest LPG chairperson in East Germany, served as Mayor of Banzkow, representing the Party of Democratic Socialism and later The Left.{{cite book |author= |date=2015 |title=Menschen in Mecklenburg Vorpommern 25 Porträts: Land zum Leben|trans-title=People in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania 25 portraits: country to live in|url= |language=German |location= |publisher=Hinstorff Verlag|isbn= 9783356019339}}

The toponym of this settlement was recorded as Bancekowe in the year 1300.