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May 9, 2024 · It is also rich in mineral and natural resources, and includes several important industrial areas. 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.
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1 day ago · The Katowice metropolitan area consists of about 40 adjacent cities and towns, the whole Upper Silesian-Moravian metropolitan area (mostly within the Upper Silesian Coal Basin) over 50 cities or towns and a population of 5,008,000.
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May 3, 2024 · In 1945, at the end of World War II, Silesia was one of the regions of German territory that was granted to Poland by the Soviet Union in compensation for land in eastern Poland that was incorporated into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Silesia consists largely of the basin of the upper and middle Oder River, which flows from southeast ...
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1 day ago · Its total population is 2,279,560. 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.
Apr 23, 2024 · metropolitan area in the central part of Silesian Voivodeship. Upper Silesian metropolitan area Q125563738)
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Apr 24, 2024 · The Upper Silesian Basin is an eastern fragment of a once continuous belt of synorogenic basins that extended from the British Isles to adjacent continental Europe and farther east to Upper Silesia and Moravia in Poland and the Czech Republic, and formed in the northern to eastern foreland of the Rhenohercynian and Moravo-Silesian fold and thrust belt (Fig. 1, Fig. 2).
