Katowice metropolitan area

Katowice metropolitan area, also known as Upper Silesian metropolitan area (), is the metropolitan area of Katowice and its urban area, with a population of around 2.5 million (2023). It lies within the areas of the historic regions of Upper Silesia, 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). Also this is (with Kraków metropolitan area among others) a part of , which has a population of around 6.8 million.

Demographics

There are given differing population numbers in different sources.

• 2,225,000 (2024) – according to citypopulation.de.
• 2,535,354 (2023) – according to Eurostat
• 2,700,000 (2006) – according to Metropolis.pl
• 2,746,000 (2001) – according to the scientific description by .
• 2,733,000 (2002) – according to the scientific description by Paweł Swianiewicz and Urszula Klimska.
• 2,886,700 (2004) – according to the scientific description by Kazimierz Fiedorowicz and Jacek Fiedorowicz.
• 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.
• 3,069,000 – according to the United Nations.
• 3,239,200 (2003) – according to the
• 3,488,000 – according to www.worldatlas.com.
• 3,500,000 – according to PWN Encyclopedia.
• 3,500,000 – according to the scientific description by Jerzy Parysek and Alexander Tölle.

Metropolis GZM

The Metropolis GZM (, formally in Polish Górnośląsko-Zagłębiowska Metropolia) 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).

The Metropolis GZM does not include Jaworzno, whose authorities decided not to join the association.

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