Upper Silesian Industry Area
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The Upper Silesian Industry Area or Upper Silesian Industry Region (polish: Górnośląskie Zagłębie Węglowe, GZW) is an urban area in Silesia, Poland centering around Katowice in Silesian Voivodship (previously capital of Katowice Voivodship). Total population for whole the metropolitan region is about 3.5 million, with 2.8 million from the Katowice urban agglomeration (Górnośląski Okręg Przemysłowy) and 0.7 million from the Rybnik area (Rybnicki Okręg Węglowy).
Geography
Location
Upper Silesian Industry Region is an important city of the historical region of Upper Silesia and Zagłębie Dąbrowskie in southern Poland on basin between the Vistula and Oder rivers.Districts
| Town | Population | Area |
|---|---|---|
| Katowice | 315 123 | 164,6 km² |
| Sosnowiec | 228 192 | 91,26 km² |
| Gliwice | 199 086 | 134,2 km² |
| Zabrze | 190 150 | 80,47 km² |
| Bytom | 189 500 | 69,32 km² |
| *Powiat wodzisławski (Wodzisław Śląski) | 155 124 | 286,92 km² |
| Powiat będziński (Będzin) | 151 289 | 368,02 km² |
| Ruda Śląska | 149 000 | 77,7 km² |
| *Rybnik | 141 755 | 148 km² |
| Powiat tarnogórski (Tarnowskie Góry) | 138 577 | 642,63 km² |
| Tychy | 131 547 | 82,63 km² |
| Dąbrowa Górnicza | 129 800 | 188 km² |
| Powiat gliwicki | 115 476 | 663,35 km² |
| Chorzów | 114 035 | 33,5 km² |
| *Powiat raciborski (Racibórz) | 112 570 | 543,98 km² |
| Jaworzno | 96 476 | 152,2 km² |
| *Jastrzębie Zdrój | 96 109 | 85,44 km² |
| Powiat mikołowski (Mikołów) | 90 675 | 231,53 km² |
| Mysłowice | 75 259 | 66 km² |
| Siemianowice Śląskie | 73 439 | 25,5 km² |
| *Żory | 62 496 | 64,64 km² |
| Piekary Śląskie | 59 984 | 39,6 km² |
| Powiat bieruńsko-lędziński (Bieruń) | 55 822 | 156,68 km² |
| Świętochłowice | 55 527 | 13,22 km² |
| Chrzanów | 50 166 | 79,33 km² |
| Oświęcim | 41 382 | 30,3 km² |
| Trzebinia | 20 373 | 31,3 km² |
| Libiąż | 17 671 | 35,88 km² |
| Łazy | 16 077 | 132,56 km² |
| Chełmek | 12 877 | 27,24 km² |
| Bukowno | 10 765 | 63,42 km² |
| Bolesław | 7 842 | 41,42 km² |
| Sławków | 6 943 | 36,60 km² |
| Total | ~3.5 million | ~6900 km² |
* - more commonly considered part of the Rybnik region (population 642,000)
Total population of Katowice and Rybnik urban agglomerations is ~3.5 million
See also
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