The Katowice urban area, also known as the Upper Silesian urban area, is an urban area/urban agglomeration/conurbation in southern Poland. It is located in the Silesian Voivodeship and in a small part of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship. The Katowice urban area is the largest urban area in Poland and one of the largest in the European Union.
Its population is about 2.7 million. The Katowice urban area covers the majority of the population and area of the Katowice metropolitan area (a population of 3,029,000, according to the European Spatial Planning Observation Network,[1] or 3,239,200, according to the Ministry of Regional Development of Poland[2]) and is part of the greater Silesian metropolitan area, which has a population of 5,294,000 people.[1]
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English: Katowice conurbation, Upper Silesian conurbation,
Katowice agglomeration, Upper Silesian
agglomeration.
Polish:
aglomeracja katowicka,
aglomeracja górnośląska, konurbacja katowicka, konurbacja
górnośląska, konurbacja śląska.
There are given differing population numbers in different sources.
2,450,000 – according to Demographia.com – World Urban Areas (2002).[3]
2,746,000 – according to the scientific description by Tadeusz Markowski.[4]
2,733,000 (2,928,000 – counting the whole powiats adjacent to the city) – according to the scientific description by Paweł Swianiewicz and Urszula Klimska.[5]
2,775,000 – according to citypopulation.de.[6]
2,764,971 – number of inhabitants resident in 42 adjacent cities and towns in the conurbation, in an area of 2,411 km2, population density: 1,146.82/km2 (2,970.2/sq mi) (1 January 2008) – on the basis of data from the Central Statistical Office in Poland[7].
2,710,397 – in an area of 2,650 km2, according to Eurostat: Larger Urban Zones (LUZ).[8] It is the 13th most populous Larger Urban Zone in the European Union.
3,069,000 – according to the United Nations.[9]
3,488,000 – according to www.worldatlas.com.[10]
Adjacent cities and statistics (1 January 2008):[7]
| City | Population | Area (km2) | Density (km-2) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Katowice | 312,201 | 164.67 | 1,896 |
| Sosnowiec | 222,586 | 91.06 | 2,444 |
| Gliwice | 197,393 | 133.88 | 1,474 |
| Zabrze | 189,062 | 80.40 | 2,352 |
| Bytom | 184,765 | 69.44 | 2,661 |
| Ruda Śląska | 144,584 | 77.73 | 1,860 |
| Rybnik | 141,080 | 148.36 | 951 |
| Tychy | 129,776 | 81.64 | 1,590 |
| Dąbrowa Górnicza | 128,795 | 188.73 | 682 |
| Chorzów | 113,678 | 33.24 | 3,420 |
| Jaworzno | 95,520 | 152.67 | 626 |
| Jastrzębie-Zdrój | 93,939 | 85.34 | 1,101 |
| Mysłowice | 74,912 | 65.75 | 1,139 |
| Siemianowice Śląskie | 71,621 | 25.5 | 2,809 |
| Żory | 62,008 | 64.59 | 960 |
| Tarnowskie Góry | 60,975 | 83.72 | 728 |
| Piekary Śląskie | 59,061 | 39.98 | 1,477 |
| Będzin | 58,639 | 37.37 | 1,569 |
| Świętochłowice | 54,525 | 13.31 | 4,097 |
| Wodzisław Śląski | 49,132 | 49.51 | 992 |
| Oświęcim | 40,520 | 30.00 | 1,351 |
| Chrzanów | 39,452 | 38.32 | 1,030 |
| Knurów | 39,449 | 33.95 | 1,162 |
| Mikołów | 38,698 | 79.20 | 489 |
| Czeladź | 34,072 | 16.38 | 2,080 |
| Czerwionka-Leszczyny | 28,329 | 37.63 | 753 |
| Łaziska Górne | 21,942 | 20.07 | 1,093 |
| Rydułtowy | 21,915 | 14.95 | 1,466 |
| Trzebinia | 20,128 | 31.94 | 630 |
| Bieruń | 19,464 | 40.67 | 479 |
| Pyskowice | 19,104 | 30.89 | 618 |
| Orzesze | 18,907 | 83.79 | 226 |
| Radlin | 17,711 | 12.53 | 1,413 |
| Libiąż | 17,487 | 35.85 | 488 |
| Radzionków | 17,163 | 13.20 | 1,300 |
| Lędziny | 16,262 | 31.48 | 517 |
| Pszów | 14,011 | 20.44 | 685 |
| Wojkowice | 9,368 | 12.79 | 732 |
| Chełmek | 9,079 | 8.27 | 1,098 |
| Imielin | 8,010 | 28.00 | 286 |
| Miasteczko Śląskie | 7,347 | 67.83 | 108 |
| Sławków | 6,866 | 36.67 | 187 |
| Total | 2,764,971 | 2,411.74 | 1,146 |
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