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Katowice metropolitan area

This article is about the metropolitan area. For the core urban area, see Katowice urban area. For the political and economic association of local municipalities, see Metropolis GZM. For the industrial region, see Upper Silesian Industrial Region.
For the more broad area also known as Upper Silesian polycentric metropolitan area, see Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan area.
Katowice metropolitan area
górnośląski obszar metropolitalny (Polish)
Metropolitan area
KTW buildings in Katowice, the largest city in the urban area
Plac Stulecia (Centennial Square) in Sosnowiec, the second largest city in the urban area
Market Square and City Hall in Gliwice, the third largest city in the urban area
Market Square in Bytom, the fifth largest city in the urban area
Historic Silver Mine in Tarnowskie Góry, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Royal Castle in Będzin
Map of Katowice metropolitan area (parts of Rybnik metropolitan area also visible in the bottom-left corner)
Map of Katowice metropolitan area (parts of Rybnik metropolitan area also visible in the bottom-left corner)
Katowice metropolitan area is located in Poland
Katowice metropolitan area
Katowice metropolitan area
Location in Poland
Coordinates: 50°15′N 19°00′E / 50.250°N 19.000°E / 50.250; 19.000
CountryPoland
VoivodeshipSilesian Voivodeship
Largest cityKatowice
Government
 • BodyMetropolis GZM
Area
 • Metro
[1]
2,949 km2 (1,139 sq mi)
Population
 (2023)
 • Metro
[2]
2,535,354
 • Metro density860/km2 (2,200/sq mi)
GDP
[3]
 • Metro€44.570 billion (2021)
Primary airportKatowice Airport
Highways
Map
Katowice metropolitan area, according to delimitation of Eurostat (Katowice FUA)

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 [pl] 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 [Wikidata],[15][16][17] which has a population of around 6.8 million.[citation needed]

  1. ^ Funkcje metropolitalne w Górnośląskim Obszarze Metropolitalnym – Elżbieta Zuzańska-Żyśko, ISSN 1509-4995
  2. ^ a b "Population on 1 January by five year age group, sex and metropolitan regions". www.ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
  3. ^ "Gross domestic product (GDP) at current market prices by metropolitan regions". www.ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
  4. ^ Robert Pyka: The Upper Silesian and Zagłębie Metropolis as a local government innovation. Poland’s first metropolitan union – opportunities and threats, p. 6 – "The author’s analyses the institutional architecture of the first Polish metropolitan union, which is a hybrid organisation combining an inter-municipal association and a local government unit, from the perspective of turning the Upper Silesian metropolitan area into an efficient system of metropolitan governance."
  5. ^ Elżbieta Zuzańska-Żyśko: Metropolitan functions of the Upper-Silesian Metropolitan Area, p. 61 – "The purpose of the article is to study metropolitan functions, as well as to analyze the intrinsic structure of the Upper-Silesian Metropolitan Area, which used to be an industrial conurbation that evolved into a polycentric settlement arrangement. (...) The selected functional metropolitan area is formed by 15 municipalities, including 13 towns with county rights, and is inhabited by 1.9 million people. (...) The metropolitan centre of utmost importance and holding well-developed metropolitan functions is the city of Katowice, whereas Gliwice and Chorzów are first-class auxiliary centres."
  6. ^ Elżbieta Zuzańska-Żyśko: The Upper-Silesian conurbation on the path towards the “Silesia” metropolis, p. 119-120 – "(...) an attempt was made to delimit the Upper-Silesian Metropolitan Area (GOM) and to define its inner structure (Fig. 1)(Zuzańska-Żyśko, 2011). (...). It is a group of 14 centres with the highest population and rank. These cities simultaneously create a voluntary municipal union named the Metropolitan Association of Upper-Silesia (GZM). These cities create the core of the future metropolis. All the adjacent boroughs make the outer metropolitan zone."
  7. ^ Zuzanna Neuve-Église: Od metropolii podzielonej do metropolii zjednoczonej - kształtowanie się tożsamości instytucji metropolitalnego zarządzania w kontekście relacji miast górnośląskiego obszaru metropolitalnego
  8. ^ W. Sroka, B. Pölling: The Potential and Significance of Urban Agriculture on the Basis of the Ruhr Metropolis and the Upper Silesian Metropolis, p. 182, footnote 5.
  9. ^ Justyna Danielewicz, Maciej Turał: Inter-communal associations: the future of metropolitan area management?, p. 122 – "The Upper Silesian Metropolitan Area is composed of 73 communes, including 14 urban districts (large cities). The urban districts have created an Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union (shown in Figure 5a) (...)."
  10. ^ Karolina Szaton: Znaczenie „małych miast” w kontekście rozwoju struktur ponadlokalnych na przykładzie Aglomeracji Górnośląskiej
  11. ^ Obserwatorium Procesów Miejskich i Metropolitalnych Uniwersytetu Śląskiego w Katowicach. "Procesy miejskie i metropolitalne". Retrieved 2025-01-05.
  12. ^ Neuve-Église, Zuzanna (2023-07-19). "Od metropolii podzielonej do metropolii zjednoczonej – kształtowanie się tożsamości instytucji metropolitalnego zarządzania w kontekście relacji miast górnośląskiego obszaru metropolitalnego". Człowiek i Społeczeństwo (in Polish). 55. Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu: 57. doi:10.14746/cis.2023.55.4. ISSN 0239-3271.
  13. ^ Zuzańska-Żyśko, Elżbieta. "Funkcje metropolitalne w Górnośląskim Obszarze Metropolitalnym". Studia Regionalne i Lokalne (in Polish). 2 (2012 ed.). Centrum Europejskich Studiów Regionalnych i Lokalnych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego: 39. ISSN 1509-4995.
  14. ^ Cite error: The named reference ESPON was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  15. ^ Koncepcja Przestrzennego Zagospodarowania Kraju 2030
  16. ^ European Spatial Planning Observation Network (ESPON) "ESPON project 1.1.1. Potentials for polycentric development in Europe" – Final report, March 2005, ISBN 91-89332-38-5
  17. ^ Spórna, Tomasz; Kantor-Pietraga, Iwona; Krzysztofik, Robert (2016-03-20). "Trajectories of depopulation and urban shrinkage in the Katowice Conurbation, Poland". Espace populations sociétés. 2015/3-2016/1 (2016): 2. Retrieved 2024-07-03. Katowice conurbation, together with the agglomerations of Kraków, Rybnik, Bielsko-Biała and Częstochowa and the agglomeration of Ostrava in the Czech Republic, make up an interstate agglomeration zone
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