The Katowice urban area ( pl, Konurbacja katowicka, ), also known as the Upper Silesian urban area ( pl, Konurbacja górnośląska, ), is an urban area/

conurbation A conurbation is a region comprising a number of metropolises, cities, large towns, and other urban areas which through population growth and physical expansion, have merged to form one continuous urban or industrially developed area. In most ca ...

in southern Poland, centered on

Katowice Katowice ( , , ; szl, Katowicy; german: Kattowitz, yi, קאַטעוויץ, Kattevitz) is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Upper Silesian metropolitan area. It is the 11th most popul ...

. It is located in the Silesian Voivodeship and in a small part of the

Lesser Poland Voivodeship Lesser Poland Voivodeship or Lesser Poland Province (in pl, województwo małopolskie ), also known as Małopolska, is a voivodeship (province), in southern Poland. It has an area of , and a population of 3,404,863 (2019). It was created on 1 ...

. 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

Upper 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 administrative ...

, 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 Kraków Metropolitan Area (pl. ''Krakowski Obszar Metropolitalny'') is a peculiar functional region including a big city - Kraków and neighbouring complex of settling units, connected with the metropolis by different interactive relations. Area i ...

Alternative names

en, Katowice conurbation, Upper Silesian conurbation, Upper Silesian urban area.
pl, konurbacja katowicka, konurbacja górnośląska, konurbacja śląska, aglomeracja katowicka, aglomeracja górnośląska.

Statistics

There are given differing population numbers in different sources. * 1,726,000 – according to Demographia (April 2020). Labeled as 21st largest urban area in the European Union. * 2,700,000 – according to Metropolis.pl * 2,746,000 – according to the scientific description by Tadeusz Markowski. * 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. * 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

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. 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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. Markered as 13th largest metropolitan area in European Union and also 6th polycentric metropolitan area in EU."''Study on Urban Functions (Project 1.4.3)''"
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, 2007 * 3,069,000 – according to the United Nations. * 3,239,200 – according to the Ministry of Regional Development of Poland * 3,450,141 – according to

* 3,488,000 – according to ''www.worldatlas.com''. * 3,500,000 – according to

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Encyclopedia."''Górnośląski Okręg Przemysłowy''"
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Encyclopedia * 3,500,000 – according to the scientific description by Jerzy Parysek and Alexander Tölle."''Wybrane problemy rozwoju i rewitalizacji miast: aspekty poznawcze i praktyczne''"
- Jerzy Parysek and Alexander Tölle,

Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań The Adam Mickiewicz University ( pl, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu; Latin: ''Universitas Studiorum Mickiewicziana Posnaniensis'') is a research university in Poznań, Poland. It traces its origins to 1611, when under the Royal Ch ...

2008, p. 34-35,

Administration of urban area

Katowice urban area (Upper Silesian urban area)

Adjacent cities and statistics (1 January 2008):

Alternative names

Statistics

Administration of urban area

See also