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Upper Silesian metropolitan area
Slezská Metropolitní oblast
CountryPoland, Czech Republic
RegionSilesian Voivodeship (Poland), Moravian-Silesian Region (Czechia)
Largest CitiesKatowice
Ostrava
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)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
Katowice in Silesian Voivodeship (Poland), the largest city in the Upper Silesian metropolitan area.

The Upper Silesian metropolitan area (also known as Upper Silesian-Moravian metropolitan area[2]) 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. 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 Czechia.

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 (1.3 million[2][3][4][5][6] people) and Częstochowa metropolitan area (0.4 million[2][3][4] people), create a greater Kraków-Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan region [7] covering 7 million people.[8]

  1. ^ "Redefining Global Cities". Brookings Institution.
  2. ^ a b c European Spatial Planning Observation Network (ESPON) "ESPON project 1.4.3. Study on Urban Functions" – Final report, March 2007, ISBN 2-9600467-2-2
  3. ^ a b Eurostat, Urban Audit database Archived 2011-04-06 at the Wayback Machine, accessed on 2009-03-12. Data for 2004.
  4. ^ 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
  5. ^ (in Polish) Funkcje Metropolitalne Pięciu Stolic Województw Wschodnich Archived 2009-03-27 at the Wayback Machine – Tadeusz Markowski
  6. ^ (in Polish) "Koncepcja przestrzennego zagospodarowania kraju" Archived 2010-03-31 at the Wayback Machine – Ministry of Regional Development, 2003
  7. ^ Koncepcja Przestrzennego Zagospodarowania Kraju 2030
  8. ^ 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

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