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The Silesian metropolitan area is the metropolitan area in southern Poland and northeast Czech Republic, centered on the cities of Katowice and Ostrava. Located in the three administrative units (NUTS-2 class): Silesian Voivodeship, small part of Lesser Poland Voivodeship and Moravian-Silesian Region.
The area lies within the Upper Silesian Coal Basin. Silesian metropolitan area with Kraków metropolitan area and Częstochowa metropolitan area is part of about 7 million megalopolis[citation needed].
It is also referred to as the Upper Silesian metropolitan area, Upper Silesian polycentric metropolitan area, Silesian-Moravian polycentric metropolitan area.[citation needed]
Statistics
Silesian-Moravian metropolitan area has a population of 5,294,000, with 4,311,000 in Poland (the Upper Silesian polycentric metropolitan area) and 983,000 in the Czech Republic (Ostrava metropolitan area) [1]. 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]
- Katowice FUA: 3,029,000 (see also Katowice urban area)
- Bielsko-Biała FUA: 584,000
- Rybnik FUA: 526,000
- Racibórz FUA: 109,000
- Cieszyn FUA: 63,000
- Ostrava FUA: 983,000
See also
References
- ^ a b European Spatial Planning Observation Network (ESPON) "ESPON project 1.4.3. Study on Urban Functions." Final report, March 2007, ISBN 2-9600467-2-2 (pdf)
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