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The Upper Silesian metropolitan area is a metropolitan area in southern Poland and northeast Czech Republic, centered on the cities of Katowice and Ostrava in Silesia. Located in the three administrative units (NUTS-2 class): mainly Silesian Voivodeship, small western part of Lesser Poland Voivodeship and small east part of Moravian-Silesian Region. The area lies within the Upper Silesian Coal Basin. Silesian metropolitan area (5.3 million people) with nearby Kraków metropolitan area (1.3 million〔 European Spatial Planning Observation Network (ESPON) ("''ESPON project 1.4.3. Study on Urban Functions''" ) - Final report, March 2007, ISBN 2-9600467-2-2〕〔 Eurostat, (Urban Audit database ), accessed on 2009-03-12. Data for 2004.〕〔 ("''Społeczne i polityczne zróżnicowanie aglomeracji w Polsce"'' - Paweł Swianiewicz, Urszula Klimska ); University of Warsaw 2005〕〔 (Funkcje Metropolitalne Pięciu Stolic Województw Wschodnich ) - Tadeusz Markowski〕〔 ("''Koncepcja przestrzennego zagospodarowania kraju''" ) - Ministry of Regional Development, 2003〕 people) and Częstochowa metropolitan area (0.4 million〔〔〔 people) create a great metropolitan area covering 7 million people. ==Statistics== Upper Silesian metropolitan area has a population of 5,294,000, with 4,311,000 (81.43%) in Poland (the Upper Silesian polycentric metropolitan area) and 983,000 (18.57%) in the Czech Republic (Ostrava Functional Urban Area).〔 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.〔 ("''Górnośląskie Zagłębie Węglowe''" ) - PWN Encyclopedia〕 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:〔 *Katowice FUA: 3,029,000 (see also Katowice urban area); within Upper Silesian Industrial Region *Bielsko-Biała FUA and Cieszyn FUA: 647,000 (584,000 + 63,000); within north of Cieszyn Silesia and Bielsko Industrial Region *Rybnik FUA and Racibórz FUA: 634,000 (526,000 + 109,000); within Rybnik Coal Area *Ostrava FUA: 983,000; within Ostrava-Karviná Coal Area Data may vary depending on the source, example for same the Katowice city exist sources for 3.5 million people;〔 (''www.worldatlas.com'' )〕〔 ("''Górnośląski Okręg Przemysłowy''" ) - PWN Encyclopedia〕 for the Rybnik - 507,000,〔 while for the Ostrava - 1,153,876.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Upper Silesian metropolitan area」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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