Katowice urban area
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The Katowice urban area, also known as the Upper Silesian urban area, is an urban area/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 between 3 million and 3.5 million) and is part of the Silesian metropolitan area, which has a population of 5,294,000 people.[1] Also this is part of Silesian metropolitan region (Katowice-Kraków metropolitan region) , which has a population of about 7 million with among others Kraków metropolitan area.
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Alternative names [edit]
English: Katowice conurbation, Upper Silesian conurbation, Upper Silesian urban area.
Polish: konurbacja katowicka, konurbacja górnośląska, konurbacja śląska, aglomeracja katowicka, aglomeracja górnośląska.
Statistics [edit]
There are given differing population numbers in different sources.
- 2,505,000 – according to the Demographia. Markered as 12th largest urban area in the European Union.[2]
- 2,700,000 – according to Metropolis.pl[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]
- 2,746,460 – according to the Eurostat. Markered as 13th largest urban zone in Europe.[8]
- 2,886,700 – according to the scientific description by Kazimierz Fiedorowicz and Jacek Fiedorowicz.[9]
- 3,029,000 – according to the European Spatial Planning Observation Network. Markered as 13th largest metropolitan area in European Union and also 6th polycentric metropolitan area in EU.[1]
- 3,069,000 – according to the United Nations.[10]
- 3,239,200 – according to the Ministry of Regional Development of Poland[11]
- 3,450,141 – according to Eurostat[12]
- 3,488,000 – according to www.worldatlas.com.[13]
- 3,500,000 – according to PWN Encyclopedia.[14][15]
- 3,500,000 – according to the scientific description by Jerzy Parysek and Alexander Tölle.[16]
Administration of urban area [edit]
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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 |
| Kalety | 8,780 | 56.00 | 128 |
| Imielin | 8,010 | 28.00 | 286 |
| Miasteczko Śląskie | 7,347 | 67.83 | 108 |
| Sławków | 6,866 | 36.67 | 187 |
| Total | 2,773,751 | 2,467.74 | 1,146 |
See also [edit]
References [edit]
- ^ a b "Study on Urban Functions (Project 1.4.3)" - European Spatial Planning Observation Network, 2007
- ^ Demographia.com – World Urban Areas, 2012
- ^ (English) "Investment areas in the Silesian Agglomeration" - Metropolis.pl, Katowice 2006
- ^ (Polish) Funkcje Metropolitalne Pięciu Stolic Województw Wschodnich
- ^ (Polish) "Społeczne i polityczne zróżnicowanie aglomeracji w Polsce" – Paweł Swianiewicz, Urszula Klimska; University of Warsaw 2005
- ^ "The Principal Agglomerations of the World" - citypopulation.de
- ^ a b (Polish)/(English) Powierzchnia i ludność w przekroju terytorialnym w 2008 – Central Statistical Office in Poland
- ^ "CityProfiles: Katowice". The Urban Audit. Retrieved 2012.
- ^ "The Influence of a Metropolis on Regional Development in Poland" - Kazimierz Fiedorowicz, Jacek Fiedorowicz; Częstochowa University of Technology
- ^ World Urbanization Prospects, Urban Agglomerations 2003 – United Nations – Department of Economic and Social Affairs / Population Division, The 2003 Revision
- ^ (Polish) "Koncepcja przestrzennego zagospodarowania kraju" – Ministry of Regional Development, 2003
- ^ "Population by sex and age groups on 1 January" - Eurostat, 2012
- ^ www.worldatlas.com
- ^ article about Upper Silesian Industrial Region coinciding with the Katowice urban area
- ^ (Polish) "Górnośląski Okręg Przemysłowy" - PWN Encyclopedia
- ^ "Wybrane problemy rozwoju i rewitalizacji miast: aspekty poznawcze i praktyczne" - Jerzy Parysek and Alexander Tölle, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań 2008, p. 34-35, ISBN 978-83-61320-33-3
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