Michałowo

{{other places|Michałowo (disambiguation)}}

{{Expand Polish|topic=geo|Michałowo|date=November 2021}}

{{Infobox settlement

| name = Michałowo

| settlement_type = Town

| image_flag =

| image_shield = POL gmina Michałowo COA.svg

| image_skyline = Michałowo - Orthodox church of St. Nicholas 05 mod.jpg

| image_caption = Orthodox Church of Saint Nicholas

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = {{POL}}

| subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship

| subdivision_name1 = Podlaskie

| subdivision_type2 = County

| subdivision_name2 = Białystok

| subdivision_type3 = Gmina

| subdivision_name3 = Michałowo

| coordinates = {{coord|53|2|12|N|23|36|13|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}}

| pushpin_map = Poland

| pushpin_label_position = bottom

| elevation_m =

| population_total = 3343

| postal_code_type = Postal code

| postal_code = 16-050

| website = http://www.michalowo.ug.gov.pl/

}}

Michałowo {{IPAc-pl|m|J|i|h|a|'|ł|o|w|o}} ({{langx|be|Міхалова}}) is a town in Białystok County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, close to the border with Belarus. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Michałowo. It lies approximately {{convert|31|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} east of the regional capital Białystok. From 1975 to 1998 it was part of Białystok Voivodeship.

The town has a population of 3,343.

Michałowo received its town rights on 1 January 2009.[http://isip.sejm.gov.pl/servlet/Search?todo=open&id=WDU20081370860 Ordinance of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Poland] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090303193337/http://isip.sejm.gov.pl/servlet/Search?todo=open&id=WDU20081370860 |date=2009-03-03 }} (in Polish)

In November 2021, several NGOs came to Michałowo to provide humanitarian aid to migrants brought to the Belarusian border east of the town.{{cite web

| website = BBC

| first = Jenny

| last = Hill

| date = 2021-11-15

| title = Belarus crisis: The locals helping families in Poland's no-go area

| url = https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59289999

| url-status = live

| archive-date = 2021-11-16

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211116043249/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59289999

| quote = In the town of Michalowo {{sic}}, several shipping containers are stacked with bottles of water, food, blankets, nappies. Iwo Los - who represents Grupa Granizca {{sic}}, an umbrella organisation of NGOs - is meeting with other volunteers here. They respond to calls for help, either directly from people in the woods, or from locals living there who spotted them.

}}