The Katowice urban area ( pl, Konurbacja katowicka, ), also known as the Upper Silesian urban area ( pl, Konurbacja górnośląska, ), is an
urban area
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Poland
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Silesian Voivodeship
Silesian Voivodeship, or Silesia Province ( pl, województwo śląskie ) is a voivodeship, or province, in southern Poland, centered on the historic region known as Upper Silesia ('), with Katowice serving as its capital.
Despite the Silesian V ...
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
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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 Upper Silesian metropolitan area, which has a population of 5,294,000 people. Also this is part of ''Upper 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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There are given differing population numbers in different sources.
* 1,726,000 – according to
Demographia
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powiat
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s adjacent to the city) – according to the scientific description by Paweł Swianiewicz and Urszula Klimska.
* 2,775,000 – according to ''citypopulation.de''.
* 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 January 2008) – on the basis of data from the Central Statistical Office in Poland.''Powierzchnia i ludność w przekroju terytorialnym w 2008'' – Central Statistical Office in Poland
* 2,746,460 – according to the Eurostat. Markered as 13th largest urban zone in Europe.
* 2,886,700 – according to the scientific description by Kazimierz Fiedorowicz and Jacek Fiedorowicz.
* 3,029,000 – according to the
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, 2007
* 3,069,000 – according to the
United Nations
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PWN
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PWN
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Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union
The Metropolis GZM ( pl, Metropolia GZM, formally in Polish Górnośląsko-Zagłębiowska Metropolia) is a metropolitan unit composed of 41 contiguous municipalities in the Silesian Voivodeship of Poland. The seat of the metropolitan council is ...
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Upper Silesian Industrial Region
The Upper Silesian Industrial Region ( pl, Górnośląski Okręg Przemysłowy, , Polish abbreviation: ''GOP'' ; german: Oberschlesisches Industriegebiet) is a large industrial region in Poland.Upper Silesian Coal Basin