| Official Name: | Podkum |
| Other Name: | Sveti Jurij pod Kumom (until 1952) |
| Pushpin Map: | Slovenia |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Slovenia |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Slovenia |
| Subdivision Type1: | Traditional region |
| Subdivision Name1: | Lower Carniola |
| Subdivision Type2: | Statistical region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Central Sava |
| Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name3: | Zagorje ob Savi |
| Area Total Km2: | 6.54 |
| Population As Of: | 2002 |
| Population Total: | 226 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
| Coordinates: | 46.0682°N 15.0368°W |
| Elevation M: | 700.8 |
| Postal Code: | 1414 |
| Footnotes: | [1] |
Podkum (in Slovenian pronounced as /pɔˈtkuːm/ or in Slovenian pronounced as /ˈpoːtkum/; German: Sankt Georgen[2]) is a settlement in the Municipality of Zagorje ob Savi in central Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Central Sava Statistical Region.[3]
The name of the settlement was changed from Sveti Jurij pod Kumom (literally, 'Saint George below Mount Kum') to Podkum (literally, 'below Mount Kum') in 1952. The name was changed on the basis of the 1948 Law on Names of Settlements and Designations of Squares, Streets, and Buildings as part of efforts by Slovenia's postwar communist government to remove religious elements from toponyms.[4] [5] [6] In the past the German name was Sankt Georgen.[2]
The local parish church is dedicated to Saint George (Slovenian: sveti Jurij) and belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ljubljana. Of the original 17th-century building only the belfry remains. The rest of the church was rebuilt in a Neo-Romanesque style in 1895.[7]