Upper Silesian metropolitan area

Upper Silesian metropolitan area
obszar metropolitalny konurbacji górnośląskiej
Slezská Metropolitní oblast
Country Poland
Region Silesian Voivodeship
Largest Cities Katowice
Sosnowiec
Gliwice
Zabrze
Bytom
Area
 • Metro 1,586,16 km2 (61,242 sq mi)
Population
 • Metro 2,204,325
 • Metro density 14/km2 (36/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
Katowice in Silesian Voivodeship (Poland), the largest city in Upper Silesian metropolitan area.

The Upper Silesian metropolitan area is a metropolitan area in southern Poland and northeast Czech Republic, centered on the cities of Katowice and Ostrava in Silesia. Located in the three administrative units (NUTS-2 class): mainly Silesian Voivodeship, small western part of Lesser Poland Voivodeship and small east part of Moravian-Silesian Region.

The area lies within the Upper Silesian Coal Basin. Silesian metropolitan area (5.3 million people) with nearby Kraków metropolitan area (1.3 million[1][2][3][4][5] people) and Częstochowa metropolitan area (0.4 million[1][2][3] people) create a great metropolitan area covering 7 million people.

Statistics

Upper Silesian metropolitan area has a population of 5,294,000, with 4,311,000 (81.43%) in Poland (the Upper Silesian polycentric metropolitan area) and 983,000 (18.57%) in the Czech Republic (Ostrava Functional Urban Area).[1] According to Polish Scientific Publishers (PWN) area is 5,400 km², with 4,500 km² (83.33%) in Poland and 900 km² (16.67%) in the Czech Republic.[6]

The area consists of several Functional Urban Areas (FUA), each of which is defined as a core Morphological Urban Area (MUA) based on population density plus the surrounding labour pool, i.e. a metropolitan area. This area contains the following FUAs:[1]

Data may vary depending on the source, example for same the Katowice city exist sources for 3.5 million people;[7][8] for the Rybnik - 507,000,[3] while for the Ostrava - 1,153,876.[2]

Economy

Historically, most of the area was characterized by heavy industry since the age of industrialisation in the late 19th and early 20th century. Except carbon, it also contains a number of other minable resources (methane, cadmium, lead, silver and zinc). Resources of coal to a depth to 1000 meters - about 70 billion tons, the conditions for the extraction - good.[6]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 (English) European Spatial Planning Observation Network (ESPON) "ESPON project 1.4.3. Study on Urban Functions" - Final report, March 2007, ISBN 2-9600467-2-2
  2. 1 2 3 (English) Eurostat, Urban Audit database, accessed on 2009-03-12. Data for 2004.
  3. 1 2 3 (Polish) "Społeczne i polityczne zróżnicowanie aglomeracji w Polsce" - Paweł Swianiewicz, Urszula Klimska; University of Warsaw 2005
  4. ↑ (Polish) Funkcje Metropolitalne Pięciu Stolic Województw Wschodnich - Tadeusz Markowski
  5. ↑ (Polish) "Koncepcja przestrzennego zagospodarowania kraju" - Ministry of Regional Development, 2003
  6. 1 2 (Polish) "Górnośląskie Zagłębie Węglowe" - PWN Encyclopedia
  7. ↑ (English) www.worldatlas.com
  8. ↑ (Polish) "Górnośląski Okręg Przemysłowy" - PWN Encyclopedia

Coordinates: 50°15′00″N 19°00′00″E / 50.2500°N 19.0000°E / 50.2500; 19.0000

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