Cities
The following table lists the cities in Silesia with a population greater than 100,000 (2006)
| Wrocław |
| Ostrava |
| Katowice |
| Bielsko-Biała |
| Opole |
| Görlitz |
| Name | Population | Area | Administrative | Country | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wrocław | 632,162 | 293 km² | Lower Silesian V. | ||
| 2 | Ostrava* | 336,556 | 214 km² | Moravian-Silesian R. | ||
| 3 | Katowice | 317,220 | 165 km² | Silesian Voivodeship | ||
| 4 | Gliwice | 199,451 | 134 km² | Silesian Voivodeship | ||
| 5 | Bytom | 187,943 | 69 km² | Silesian Voivodeship | ||
| 6 | Zabrze | 191,247 | 80 km² | Silesian Voivodeship | ||
| 7 | Bielsko-Biała* | 176,864 | 125 km² | Silesian Voivodeship | ||
| 8 | Ruda Śląska | 146,658 | 78 km² | Silesian Voivodeship | ||
| 9 | Rybnik | 141,580 | 148 km² | Silesian Voivodeship | ||
| 10 | Tychy | 131,153 | 82 km² | Silesian Voivodeship | ||
| 11 | Opole | 128,268 | 97 km² | Opole Voivodeship | ||
| 12 | Wałbrzych | 126,465 | 85 km² | Lower Silesian V. | ||
| 13 | Zielona Góra | 118,221 | 58 km² | Lubusz Voivodeship | ||
| 14 | Chorzów | 114,686 | 33 km² | Silesian Voivodeship | ||
| 15 | Legnica | 105,750 | 56 km² | Lower Silesian V. |
* Only part in Silesia
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Famous quotes containing the word cities:
“Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia; while around them cities have changed their masters and their names, collided and smashed, disappeared into nothingness, their peaceful generations have crossed down the ages as fresh and smiling as on the days of battle.”
—Edgar Quinet (1803–1875)
“How far men go for the material of their houses! The inhabitants of the most civilized cities, in all ages, send into far, primitive forests, beyond the bounds of their civilization, where the moose and bear and savage dwell, for their pine boards for ordinary use. And, on the other hand, the savage soon receives from cities iron arrow-points, hatchets, and guns, to point his savageness with.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Like other cities created overnight in the Outlet, Woodward acquired between noon and sunset of September 16, 1893, a population of five thousand; and that night a voluntary committee on law and order sent around the warning, “if you must shoot, shoot straight up!””
—State of Oklahoma, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)