Katowice metropolitan area
Metropolitan area in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
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Katowice metropolitan area, also known as Upper Silesian metropolitan area[4][5][6][7][8][9][10] (Polish: górnośląski obszar metropolitalny[11][12][13]), is the metropolitan area of Katowice and its urban area, with a population of around 2.5 million (2023).[2] It lies within the areas of the historic regions of Upper Silesia, Kraków Basin and Dąbrowa Basin. It is sometimes considered a part of the polycentric Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan area, which has a population of 5.3 million people (2002).[14] Also this is (with Kraków metropolitan area among others) a part of Kraków-Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan region ,[15][16][17] which has a population of around 6.8 million.[citation needed]
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Katowice metropolitan area
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Metropolitan area | |
    
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 Map of Katowice metropolitan area (parts of Rybnik metropolitan area also visible in the bottom-left corner) | |
  Katowice metropolitan area Location in Poland | |
| Coordinates: 50°15′N 19°00′E | |
| Country | Poland |
| Voivodeship | Silesian Voivodeship |
| Largest city | Katowice |
| Government | |
| • Body | Metropolis GZM |
| Area | |
| • Metro | 2,949 km2 (1,139 sq mi) |
| Population (2023) | |
| • Metro | 2,535,354 |
| • Metro density | 859.7/km2 (2,227/sq mi) |
| GDP | |
| • Metro | €44.570 billion (2021) |
| Primary airport | Katowice Airport |
| Highways |    |
Demographics
There are given differing population numbers in different sources.
- 2,225,000 (2024) – according to citypopulation.de.[18]
- 2,535,354 (2023) – according to Eurostat[2]
- 2,700,000 (2006) – according to Metropolis.pl[19]
- 2,746,000 (2001) – according to the scientific description by Tadeusz Markowski.[20]
- 2,733,000 (2002) – according to the scientific description by Paweł Swianiewicz and Urszula Klimska.[21]
- 2,886,700 (2004) – according to the scientific description by Kazimierz Fiedorowicz and Jacek Fiedorowicz.[22]
- 3,029,000 (2002) – 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.[14]
- 3,069,000 – according to the United Nations.[23]
- 3,239,200 (2003) – according to the Ministry of Regional Development of Poland[24]
- 3,488,000 – according to www.worldatlas.com.[25]
- 3,500,000 – according to PWN Encyclopedia.[26][27]
- 3,500,000 – according to the scientific description by Jerzy Parysek and Alexander Tölle.[28]
Metropolis GZM
The Metropolis GZM[29] (Polish: Metropolia GZM, formally in Polish Górnośląsko-Zagłębiowska Metropolia)[30] is a metropolitan association composed of 41 contiguous municipalities in the Silesian Voivodeship of Poland, created on 1 July 2017. It has an area of 2553 km² and a population of 2 128 034 (2023).[31]
The Metropolis GZM does not include Jaworzno, whose authorities decided not to join the association.[32]