Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan area

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Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan area
aglomeracja katowicko-ostrawska
katovicko-ostravská aglomerace
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Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan area
Location in Europe
Coordinates: 50°05′N18°45′E / 50.083°N 18.750°E / 50.083; 18.750
Country Poland, Czech Republic
Region Silesian Voivodeship (Poland), Moravian-Silesian Region (Czech Republic)
Largest cities Ostrava
Katowice
Sosnowiec
Gliwice
Zabrze
Bielsko-Biała
Bytom
Area
 • Metro
5,400 km2 (2,100 sq mi)
Population
 (2015) [1]
 •  Metro
5,008,000
 • Metro density930/km2 (2,400/sq mi)
GDP
[2]
 • Metro€75.0 billion (2021)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
Katowice in Silesian Voivodeship (Poland), the biggest city of the largest urban area in the Upper Silesian metropolitan area. Katowice.jpg
Katowice in Silesian Voivodeship (Poland), the biggest city of the largest urban area in the Upper Silesian metropolitan area.

The Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan area [3] [4] (also known as Upper Silesian-Moravian metropolitan area [a] or Upper Silesian urban-industrial agglomeration [5] ) is a polycentric metropolitan area in southern Poland and northeastern Czech Republic, centered on the cities of Katowice and Ostrava, and has around 5 million inhabitants. [1] Geographically, it is located mainly in Upper Silesia, with small parts of the area also in the historical regions of Moravia and Lesser Poland. Administratively, it is located in the three administrative units (NUTS-2 class): mainly Silesian Voivodeship and a small western part of Lesser Poland Voivodeship in Poland, and also a small eastern part of Moravian-Silesian Region in the Czech Republic.

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The metropolitan area lies within the Upper Silesian Coal Basin. The Upper Silesian metropolitan area (5.3 million people), together with nearby Kraków metropolitan area [6] [7] (1.3 million [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] people) and Częstochowa metropolitan area [6] (0.4 million [8] [9] [10] people), create a greater Kraków-Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan region  [ Wikidata ] covering 7 million people.

Demographics

Upper Silesian metropolitan area has a population of 5,294,000 (2002), with 4,311,000 (81.43%) in Poland (the Upper Silesian polycentric metropolitan area) and 982,000 (18.57%) in the Czech Republic (Ostrava Functional Urban Area). [13] According to Polish Scientific Publishers (PWN) area is 5,400 km², with 4,500 km² (83.33%) in Poland and 900 km² (16.67%) in the Czech Republic. [14] According to the Brookings Institution, area has a population of 5,008,000 (2015). [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: [13]

Economy

Lower Vitkovice in Ostrava (Czech Republic), a former mining complex, today a national site of industrial heritage including Bolt Tower 20050124 Vitkovice blast furnace.jpg
Lower Vítkovice in Ostrava (Czech Republic), a former mining complex, today a national site of industrial heritage including Bolt Tower

Historically, most of the area was characterized by heavy industry since the age of industrialisation in the late 19th and early 20th century. In addition to coal, Upper Silesia also contains a number of other minable resources (methane, cadmium, lead, silver and zinc). About 70 billion tons of coal resources are available up to a depth of 1000 meters and the conditions for extraction are good. [14]

Contrary to most other European cross-border polycentric metropolitan regions, Katowice-Ostrava has no established cross-border cooperation project, structure, or institution of metropolitan ambition. [15]

Transport

Air transport

Two international airports – Katowice Airport and Leoš Janáček Airport Ostrava – serve the area.

Rail transport

High-speed rail link between Katowice and Ostrava is scheduled to be completed by the year 2030. [16] It will cut down the travel time between the two cities to 30 [17] -35 [16] minutes.

Regional trains are operated by Koleje Śląskie, most importantly serving Katowice, Rybnik, Racibórz, Bielsko-Biała, and Cieszyn in Poland, and the railway junction station in Bohumín near Ostrava in Czechia. [18]

Road transport

Polish A1 and Czech D1 motorways connect the urban areas of Katowice, Rybnik and Ostrava. Bielsko-Biała is linked with Cieszyn/Český Těšín and Frýdek-Místek by the Polish Expressway S52 and Czech D48 motorway, while connection to Katowice urban area via Expressway S1 is in construction.

Notes

^ ESPON used in "ESPON project 1.4.3" two almost identical names: Upper Silesian-Moravian metropolitan area [19] and Silesian-Moravian polycentric metropolitan area. [13]

See also

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