Upper Silesian metropolitan area

The Upper Silesian metropolitan area is a metropolitan area in southern Poland and northeastern Czech Republic, centered on the cities of Katowice and Ostrava in Silesia and has around 5 million inhabitants. Located in the three administrative units (NUTS-2 class): mainly Silesian Voivodeship, a small western part of Lesser Poland Voivodeship and a small east part of Moravian-Silesian Region.

This article is about the geographic urban area. For the industrial region, see Upper Silesian Industrial Region. For the political and economic association of local municipalities, see Silesian Metropolis.
For the more narrow urban area, see Katowice urban area.
Upper Silesian metropolitan area
obszar metropolitalny konurbacji górnośląskiej
Slezská Metropolitní oblast
CountryPoland, Czech Republic
RegionMainly Silesia
Largest CitiesKatowice
Ostrava
Sosnowiec
Gliwice
Zabrze
Bytom
Area
 • Metro
5,400 km2 (2,100 sq mi)
Population
 • Metro
5,294,000
 • Metro density980/km2 (2,500/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)

The Polycentric metropolitan area lies within the Upper Silesian Coal Basin. Silesian metropolitan area (5.3 million people) with nearby Kraków metropolitan area (1.3 million people) and Częstochowa metropolitan area (0.4 million people) create a great metropolitan area covering 7 million people.

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