The Rybnik Coal Area ( pl, Rybnicki Okręg Węglowy, ''ROW'') is an industrial region in southern

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Encyclopedia It is located in the

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 ...

, in a basin between the

Vistula The Vistula (; pl, Wisła, ) is the longest river in Poland and the ninth-longest river in Europe, at in length. The drainage basin, reaching into three other nations, covers , of which is in Poland. The Vistula rises at Barania Góra in ...

and Oder rivers, sited on the Rybnik Plateau ( pl, Płaskowyż Rybnicki) between Katowice ( Upper-Silesian Metropolis) to the north and

Ostrava Ostrava (; pl, Ostrawa; german: Ostrau ) is a city in the north-east of the Czech Republic, and the capital of the Moravian-Silesian Region. It has about 280,000 inhabitants. It lies from the border with Poland, at the confluences of four riv ...

on the south-west. It is part of the

Silesian metropolitan area The Upper Silesian metropolitan area is a metropolitan area in southern Poland and northeastern Czech Republic, centered on the cities of Katowice and Ostrava in Silesia and has around 5 million inhabitants. Located in the three administrati ...

populated by 5,294,000 people

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(ESPON) and the Silesian metropolitan region populated by about 7 million. According to scientific description by Paweł Swianiewicz and Urszula Klimska this area has 507,000 people,"''Społeczne i polityczne zróżnicowanie aglomeracji w Polsce''"
- Paweł Swianiewicz, Urszula Klimska;

University of Warsaw The University of Warsaw ( pl, Uniwersytet Warszawski, la, Universitas Varsoviensis) is a public university in Warsaw, Poland. Established in 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country offering 37 different fields o ...

2005 according to

- 634,000 people (525,000 + 109,000 by Racibórz). Area: about 1,300 km².

Main cities

Adjacent main cities and statistics (30.06.2009):"''Population. Size and structure by territorial division''"
- Central Statistical Office of Poland, 2009, ISSN 1734-6118

Area

Adjacent county (

powiat A ''powiat'' (pronounced ; Polish plural: ''powiaty'') is the second-level unit of local government and administration in Poland, equivalent to a county, district or prefecture ( LAU-1, formerly NUTS-4) in other countries. The term "''powia ...

) and statistics (30.06.2009):

Main cities

Area

See also