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Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan area

This article is about the geographic urban area. For the industrial region, see Upper Silesian Industrial Region. For the political and economic association of local municipalities, see Metropolis GZM.
For the more narrow urban area, see Katowice urban area.
Upper Silesian metropolitan area
Slezská Metropolitní oblast
Upper Silesian metropolitan area is located in Europe
Upper Silesian metropolitan area
Upper Silesian metropolitan area
Location in Europe
Coordinates: 50°05′N 18°45′E / 50.083°N 18.750°E / 50.083; 18.750
CountryPoland, Czech Republic
RegionSilesian Voivodeship (Poland), Moravian-Silesian Region (Czech Republic)
Largest citiesOstrava
Katowice
Sosnowiec
Gliwice
Zabrze
Bielsko-Biała
Bytom
Area
 • Metro
5,400 km2 (2,100 sq mi)
Population
 (2015)[1]
 • Metro
5,008,000
 • Metro density930/km2 (2,400/sq mi)
GDP
[2]
 • Metro€75.0 billion (2021)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
Katowice in Silesian Voivodeship (Poland), the biggest city of the largest urban area in the Upper Silesian metropolitan area.

The Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan area[3][4] (also known as Upper Silesian-Moravian metropolitan area[a] or Upper Silesian urban-industrial agglomeration[5]) is a polycentric metropolitan area in southern Poland and northeastern Czech Republic, centered on the cities of Katowice and Ostrava, and has around 5 million inhabitants.[1] Geographically, it is located mainly in Upper Silesia, with small parts of the area also in the historical regions of Moravia and Lesser Poland. Administratively, it is located in the three administrative units (NUTS-2 class): mainly Silesian Voivodeship and a small western part of Lesser Poland Voivodeship in Poland, and also a small eastern part of Moravian-Silesian Region in the Czech Republic.

The metropolitan area lies within the Upper Silesian Coal Basin. The Upper Silesian metropolitan area (5.3 million people), together with nearby Kraków metropolitan area[6][7] (1.3 million[8][9][10][11][12] people) and Częstochowa metropolitan area[6] (0.4 million[8][9][10] people), create a greater Kraków-Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan region [Wikidata] covering 7 million people.

  1. ^ a b Brookings Institution Redefining global cities: The seven types of global metro economies (2016), p. 24.
  2. ^ "Gross domestic product (GDP) at current market prices by metropolitan regions". www.ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
  3. ^ Brookings Institution Redefining global cities: The seven types of global metro economies (2016), p. 16.
  4. ^ European Spatial Planning Observation Network (ESPON) "Metroborder: Cross-border Polycentric Metropolitan Regions" – Final report, 31 December 2010, ISBN 978-99959-684-8-9
  5. ^ Polish Academy of Sciences (1975). Geographia Polonica, vol. 30 (PDF). Warsaw: Polish Scientific Publishers PWN. p. 72.
  6. ^ a b Koncepcja Przestrzennego Zagospodarowania Kraju 2030
  7. ^ European Spatial Planning Observation Network (ESPON) "ESPON project 1.1.1. Potentials for polycentric development in Europe" – Final report, March 2005, ISBN 91-89332-38-5
  8. ^ a b European Spatial Planning Observation Network (ESPON) "ESPON project 1.4.3. Study on Urban Functions" – Final report, March 2007, ISBN 2-9600467-2-2, p. 94.
  9. ^ a b Eurostat, Urban Audit database Archived 2011-04-06 at the Wayback Machine, accessed on 2009-03-12. Data for 2004.
  10. ^ a b (in Polish) "Społeczne i polityczne zróżnicowanie aglomeracji w Polsce" – Paweł Swianiewicz, Urszula Klimska Archived 2009-01-24 at the Wayback Machine; University of Warsaw 2005
  11. ^ (in Polish) Funkcje Metropolitalne Pięciu Stolic Województw Wschodnich Archived 2009-03-27 at the Wayback Machine – Tadeusz Markowski
  12. ^ (in Polish) "Koncepcja przestrzennego zagospodarowania kraju" Archived 2010-03-31 at the Wayback Machine – Ministry of Regional Development, 2003

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