Pyskowice

Pyskowice
Town square with historic tenements
Town square with historic tenements
Coat of arms of Pyskowice
Pyskowice is located in Poland
Pyskowice
Pyskowice
Coordinates: 50°23′N 18°37′E / 50.383°N 18.617°E / 50.383; 18.617
Country Poland
Voivodeship Silesian
CountyGliwice
GminaPyskowice (urban gmina)
First mentioned1256
Government
 • MayorAdam Wójcik
Area
 • City
31.89 km2 (12.31 sq mi)
Population
 (2023[1])
 • City
16 390
 • Urban
2,746,000
 • Metro
5,294,000
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
44-120
Car platesSGL
ClimateCfb
Primary airportKatowice Airport
Websitehttp://www.pyskowice.pl/

Pyskowice [pɨskɔˈvʲit͡sɛ] (German: Peiskretscham) is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. Outer city of the Metropolis GZM – metropolis with the population of 2 million. Located in the Silesian Highlands.

It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship since its formation in 1999, previously it was in Katowice Voivodeship. Pyskowice is one of the towns of the 2.7 million conurbation – Katowice urban area and within a greater Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan area populated by about 5,294,000 people.[2] The population of the town is 18,432 (2019). It borders Gliwice, one of the largest cities of the metropolitan area, in the south.

  1. ^ "Report about the state of the region". pyskowice.pl. Pyskowice City. 2023. Retrieved 2023-01-01.
  2. ^ European Spatial Planning Observation Network (ESPON) "Project 1.4.3". Archived from the original on 2009-07-28. Retrieved 2009-03-28.

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