Katowice urban area

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 4,676,983 people.

Alternative names

English: Katowice conurbation, Upper Silesian conurbation, Upper Silesian urban area.
Polish: konurbacja katowicka, konurbacja górnośląska, konurbacja śląska, aglomeracja katowicka, aglomeracja górnośląska.

Statistics

There are given differing population numbers in different sources.

• 2,500,000 – according to Demographia.com – World Urban Areas (2002).^[1]
• 2,700,000 - according to Metropolis.pl^[2]
• 2,746,000 – according to the scientific description by Tadeusz Markowski.^[3]
• 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.^[4]
• 2,775,000 – according to citypopulation.de.^[5]
• 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.^[6]
• 2,710,397 – in an area of 2,650 km², according to Eurostat: Larger Urban Zones (LUZ).^[7] It is the 13th most populous Larger Urban Zone in the European Union.
• 2,886,700 – according to the Union of Polish Metropolises^[8]
• 3,029,000 - according to the European Spatial Planning Observation Network^[9]
• 3,069,000 – according to the United Nations.^[10]
• 3,239,200 - according to the Ministry of Regional Development of Poland^[11]
• 3,488,000 – according to www.worldatlas.com.^[12]

Administration of conurbation

Adjacent cities and statistics (1 January 2008):^[6]

See also

• Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union
• Upper Silesian Industrial Region
• Upper Silesian Coal Basin

References