Kowal [ˈkɔval] is a town in Włocławek County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland,[2] with 3,478 inhabitants (2004).

[3] Kowal was the birthplace of Casimir III the Great, the last Polish King from the Piast dynasty.

[6] In 1940, the German gendarmerie carried out expulsions of Poles, who were deported to a transit camp in Łódź and then to the General Government in the more-eastern part of German-occupied Poland, while their houses, shops and workshops were handed over to German colonists as part of the Lebensraum policy.

[7] The town is located on Poland's most important north–south highway, National Road 1 (DK1).

Its local association football team is Kujawiak Kowal.