Mstów [mstuf] is a village (town in 1279 - 1870) in Częstochowa County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Mstów. It lies approximately 13 kilometres (8 mi) east of Częstochowa and 68 km (42 mi) north of the regional capital Katowice. Mstów lies on the Warta river, in western part of historic province of Lesser Poland. The village has a population of 1,704, and in early days of Polish history, it was the regional center of an opole (the word opole comes from Slavic language, and means basic territorial unit of a tribe).