- The word Haynau redirects here. For the Austrian general, please see Julius Jacob von Haynau.
Chojnów is a small town in
Legnica County,
Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western
Poland. It is located on the Skora river, a tributary of the
Kaczawa at an average altitude of above sea level. Chojnów is the administrative seat of the rural
gmina called
Gmina Chojnów, although the town is not part of its territory and forms a separate urban gmina. As of 2006 it had 14,389 inhabitants.