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, 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 ,^[15][16][17] which has a population of around 6.8 million.^{[citation needed]}

Katowice metropolitan area górnośląski obszar metropolitalny (Polish)
Metropolitan area
From top, left to right: KTW buildings in Katowice Plac Stulecia (Centennial Square) in Sosnowiec Market Square and City Hall in Gliwice Market Square in Bytom Historic Silver Mine in Tarnowskie Góry Royal Castle in Będzin
Map of Katowice metropolitan area (parts of Rybnik metropolitan area also visible in the bottom-left corner)
Katowice metropolitan area Location in Poland
Coordinates: 50°15′N 19°00′E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Silesian Voivodeship
Largest city	Katowice
Government
• Body	Metropolis GZM
Area
• Metro [1]	2,949 km2 (1,139 sq mi)
Population  (2023)
• Metro [2]	2,535,354
• Metro density	860/km2 (2,200/sq mi)
GDP [3]
• Metro	€44.570 billion (2021)
Primary airport	Katowice Airport
Highways

Katowice metropolitan area, according to delimitation of Eurostat (Katowice FUA)

Demographics

There are given differing population numbers in different sources.

• 2,225,000 (2024) – according to citypopulation.de.^[18]
• 2,535,354 (2023) – according to Eurostat^[2]
• 2,700,000 (2006) – according to Metropolis.pl^[19]
• 2,746,000 (2001) – according to the scientific description by Tadeusz Markowski.^[20]
• 2,733,000 (2002) – according to the scientific description by Paweł Swianiewicz and Urszula Klimska.^[21]
• 2,886,700 (2004) – according to the scientific description by Kazimierz Fiedorowicz and Jacek Fiedorowicz.^[22]
• 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.^[14]
• 3,069,000 – according to the United Nations.^[23]
• 3,239,200 (2003) – according to the Ministry of Regional Development of Poland^[24]
• 3,488,000 – according to www.worldatlas.com.^[25]
• 3,500,000 – according to PWN Encyclopedia.^[26][27]
• 3,500,000 – according to the scientific description by Jerzy Parysek and Alexander Tölle.^[28]

Metropolis GZM

Main article: Metropolis GZM

Area of the Metropolis GZM

The Metropolis GZM^[29] (Polish: Metropolia GZM, formally in Polish Górnośląsko-Zagłębiowska Metropolia)^[30] 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).^[31]

The Metropolis GZM does not include Jaworzno, whose authorities decided not to join the association.^[32]

References

1. Funkcje metropolitalne w Górnośląskim Obszarze Metropolitalnym – Elżbieta Zuzańska-Żyśko, ISSN 1509-4995
2. "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. "Study on Urban Functions (Project 1.4.3)" - European Spatial Planning Observation Network, 2007
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
18. "The Principal Agglomerations of the World" - citypopulation.de
19. (in English) "Investment areas in the Silesian Agglomeration" Archived 2012-03-05 at the Wayback Machine - Metropolis.pl, Katowice 2006
20. (in Polish) Funkcje Metropolitalne Pięciu Stolic Województw Wschodnich Archived 2010-04-15 at the Wayback Machine
21. (in Polish) "Społeczne i polityczne zróżnicowanie aglomeracji w Polsce" – Paweł Swianiewicz, Urszula Klimska Archived 2009-01-24 at the Wayback Machine; University of Warsaw 2005
22. "The Influence of a Metropolis on Regional Development in Poland" - Kazimierz Fiedorowicz, Jacek Fiedorowicz; Częstochowa University of Technology
23. World Urbanization Prospects, Urban Agglomerations 2003 – United Nations – Department of Economic and Social Affairs / Population Division, The 2003 Revision
24. (in Polish) "Koncepcja przestrzennego zagospodarowania kraju" Archived 2010-03-31 at the Wayback Machine – Ministry of Regional Development, 2003
25. www.worldatlas.com
26. article about Upper Silesian Industrial Region coinciding with the Katowice urban area
27. (in Polish) "Górnośląski Okręg Przemysłowy" Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine - PWN Encyclopedia
28. "Wybrane problemy rozwoju i rewitalizacji miast: aspekty poznawcze i praktyczne" - Jerzy Parysek and Alexander Tölle, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań 2008, p. 34-35, ISBN 978-83-61320-33-3
29. "Metropolia dziś / Metropolis today – Metropolia GZM". Retrieved 2021-03-31.
30. "Full text of the Government bill establishing the Górnośląsko-Zagłębiowska Metropolia" [Utworzenie przez Rade Ministrów związku metropolitalnego pod nazwą „Górnośląsko-Zagłębiowska Metropolia”. Rozporządzenie] (PDF). Council of Ministers. 25 June 2017. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
31. "Info Mapa - InfoGZM". infogzm.metropoliagzm.pl. Retrieved 2025-01-08.
32. "Jaworzno odcina się od metropolii. Na granicy z Sosnowcem stanie specjalna tablica". Gazeta Wyborcza Katowice. Retrieved 2018-01-02.