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The Upper Silesian metropolitan area (5.3 million people), together with nearby Kraków metropolitan area (1.3 million people) and Częstochowa metropolitan area (0.4 million people), create a greater Kraków-Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan region covering 7 million people.
The largest city and Lower Silesia's capital is Wrocław; the historic capital of Upper Silesia is Opole. The biggest metropolitan area is the Katowice metropolitan area, the centre of which is Katowice. Parts of the Czech city of Ostrava and the German city of Görlitz are within Silesia's borders.
- 40,400 km² (15,600 sq mi)
- Wrocław
- c. 8,000,000
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 (with Ostrava metropolitan area among others) a part of the Upper Silesian-Moravian metropolitan area, which has a population of 5.3 ...
Silesian Voivodeship. / 50.250°N 19.000°E / 50.250; 19.000. Silesian Voivodeship ( Polish: województwo śląskie [vɔjɛˈvut͡stfɔ ˈɕlɔ̃skʲɛ] ⓘ) is a voivodeship, or province, in southern Poland centered on the historic region known as Upper Silesia ( Górny Śląsk ), with Katowice serving as its capital.
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.
