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Upper Silesia (Polish: Górny Śląsk ⓘ ; Silesian: Gůrny Ślůnsk, Gōrny Ślōnsk; Czech: Horní Slezsko; German: Oberschlesien ⓘ ; Silesian German: Oberschläsing; Latin: Silesia Superior) is the southeastern part of the historical and geographical region of Silesia, located today mostly in Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic.
- Upper Silesian metropolitan area
Upper Silesian metropolitan area. Upper Silesian...
- Upper Silesian Industrial Region
The Upper Silesian Industrial Region (Polish: Górnośląski...
- Upper Silesian metropolitan area
The Katowice urban area covers the majority of the population and area of the Katowice metropolitan area (also known as Upper Silesian metropolitan area), with a population of around 2.5 million (2023), and is a part of the Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan area, which has a population of 5.3 million people (2002).
The area of the metropolis largely coincides with the metropolitan area of the Katowice urban area, which is a part of the wider polycentric transnational Upper Silesian-Moravian metropolitan area, the latter with a population of 5–5.3 million people.
Silesia ( Polish: Śląsk; German: Schlesien; Latin: Silesia; Silesian: Ślůnsk) is a historical region of Poland. From 1742 to 1945, it was a province in the east of Prussia and later Germany. In 1945, all of Poland was occupied by the Soviet Red Army.
Last updated March 21, 2024 • 14 min read From Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Upper Silesia ( Górny Śląsk) and other historical lands of Poland against the background of modern administrative borders (names in Polish)
