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Katowice urban area
Konurbacja katowicka | |
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Urban area | |
 KTW buildings in Katowice, the largest city in the urban area | |
 Map of Katowice urban area and its metropolitan area (parts of Rybnik metropolitan area also visible in the bottom-left corner) | |
  Katowice urban area Location in Poland | |
| Coordinates: 50°15′N 19°00′E / 50.250°N 19.000°E | |
| Country | Poland |
| Voivodeship | Silesian Voivodeship |
| Largest city | Katowice |
| Government | |
| • Body | Metropolis GZM |
| Area | |
| • Urban [1] | 1,468 km2 (567 sq mi) |
| • Metro [2] | 2,949 km2 (1,139 sq mi) |
| Population (2023) | |
| • Urban [3] | 1,903,000 |
| • Urban density | 1,300/km2 (3,400/sq mi) |
| • Metro [4] | 2,535,354 |
| • Metro density | 860/km2 (2,200/sq mi) |
| GDP [5] | |
| • Metro | €44.570 billion (2021) |
The Katowice urban area (Polish: Konurbacja katowicka, pronounced [kɔnurˈbat͡sja katɔˈvit͡ska]), also known as the Upper Silesian urban area (Konurbacja górnośląska, [kɔnurˈbat͡sja ɡurnɔˈɕlɔ̃ska]), is an urban area/conurbation in southern Poland, centered on Katowice. 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 21st largest urban area in the European Union. According to Demographia, its population is 1,903,000 (August 2023).[3]
The Katowice urban area covers the majority of the population and area of the Katowice metropolitan area (also known as Upper Silesian metropolitan area),[6][7][8][9][10][11][12] with a population of around 2.5 million (2023),[4] and is (with Ostrava metropolitan area among others) a part of the Upper Silesian-Moravian metropolitan area, which has a population of 5.3 million people (2002).[13] Also this is (with Kraków metropolitan area among others) a part of Kraków-Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan region ,[14][15] which has a population of around 6.8 million.
- ^ AGLOMERACJA 19 MIAST WOJEWÓDZTWA ŚLĄSKIEGO NA TLE INNYCH POTENCJALNYCH AGLOMERACJI – Powierzchnia i ludność
- ^ Funkcje metropolitalne w Górnośląskim Obszarze Metropolitalnym – Elżbieta Zuzańska-Żyśko, ISSN 1509-4995
- ^ a b Demographia.com – World Urban Areas, 19th ANNUAL EDITION, August 2023
- ^ a b "Population on 1 January by five year age group, sex and metropolitan regions". www.ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
- ^ "Gross domestic product (GDP) at current market prices by metropolitan regions". www.ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
- ^ Robert Pyka: The Upper Silesian and Zagłębie Metropolis as a local government innovation. Poland’s first metropolitan union – opportunities and threats, p. 6 – "The author’s analyses the institutional architecture of the first Polish metropolitan union, which is a hybrid organisation combining an inter-municipal association and a local government unit, from the perspective of turning the Upper Silesian metropolitan area into an efficient system of metropolitan governance."
- ^ Elżbieta Zuzańska-Żyśko: Metropolitan functions of the Upper-Silesian Metropolitan Area, p. 61 – "The purpose of the article is to study metropolitan functions, as well as to analyze the intrinsic structure of the Upper-Silesian Metropolitan Area, which used to be an industrial conurbation that evolved into a polycentric settlement arrangement. (...) The selected functional metropolitan area is formed by 15 municipalities, including 13 towns with county rights, and is inhabited by 1.9 million people. (...) The metropolitan centre of utmost importance and holding well-developed metropolitan functions is the city of Katowice, whereas Gliwice and Chorzów are first-class auxiliary centres."
- ^ Elżbieta Zuzańska-Żyśko: The Upper-Silesian conurbation on the path towards the “Silesia” metropolis, p. 119-120 – "(...) an attempt was made to delimit the Upper-Silesian Metropolitan Area (GOM) and to define its inner structure (Fig. 1)(Zuzańska-Żyśko, 2011). (...). It is a group of 14 centres with the highest population and rank. These cities simultaneously create a voluntary municipal union named the Metropolitan Association of Upper-Silesia (GZM). These cities create the core of the future metropolis. All the adjacent boroughs make the outer metropolitan zone."
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Sroka-Pöllingwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Justyna Danielewicz, Maciej Turał: Inter-communal associations: the future of metropolitan area management?, p. 122 – "The Upper Silesian Metropolitan Area is composed of 73 communes, including 14 urban districts (large cities). The urban districts have created an Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union (shown in Figure 5a) (...)."
- ^ Karolina Szaton: Znaczenie „małych miast” w kontekście rozwoju struktur ponadlokalnych na przykładzie Aglomeracji Górnośląskiej
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- ^ 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