Havířov consists of eight municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census):[2] In a competition to name the city in 1956, various names were suggested, such as Stalin, Gottwaldův Horníkov (after Klement Gottwald), Zápotockýgrad (after Antonín Zápotocký) and "Čestprácov" (derived from the Socialist-era greeting čest práci).

Eventually it was decided that the city should be named Havířov (from havíř, i.e. 'miner', with the possessive suffix -ov).

[3] Havířov is located about 8 kilometres (5 mi) east of Ostrava and is urbanistically fused with neighbouring Šenov.

It lies mostly in the Ostrava Basin lowland, but in the south, the municipal territory also extends into the Moravian-Silesian Foothills.

[4] Today, the original villages are administrative parts of the city and mostly lie on the outskirts of urban Havířov.

Havířov lies on the railway line of national importance to Prague via Ostrava and Olomouc.

[8] The city's football club, MFK Havířov, competes in the Czech Fourth Division.

Football club MFK Havířov was founded in 1922 as ČSK Moravská Suchá.

[13] A unique remnant of the original villages before the founding of the city is Kotula's log cabin.