Katowice Urban Area - Statistics

Statistics

There are given differing population numbers in different sources.

• 2,505,000 – according to the Demographia. Markered as 12th largest urban area in the European Union.
• 2,700,000 – according to Metropolis.pl
• 2,746,000 – according to the scientific description by Tadeusz Markowski.
• 2,733,000 (2,928,000 – counting the whole powiats adjacent to the city) – according to the scientific description by Paweł Swianiewicz and Urszula Klimska.
• 2,775,000 – according to citypopulation.de.
• 2,764,971 – number of inhabitants resident in 42 adjacent cities and towns in the conurbation, in an area of 2,411 km2, population density: 1,146.82/km2 (2,970.2/sq mi) (1 January 2008) – on the basis of data from the Central Statistical Office in Poland.
• 2,746,460 – according to the Eurostat. Markered as 13th largest urban zone in Europe.
• 2,886,700 – according to the scientific description by Kazimierz Fiedorowicz and Jacek Fiedorowicz.
• 3,029,000 – according to the European Spatial Planning Observation Network. Markered as 13th largest metropolitan area in European Union and also 6th polycentric metropolitan area in EU.
• 3,069,000 – according to the United Nations.
• 3,239,200 – according to the Ministry of Regional Development of Poland
• 3,450,141 – according to Eurostat
• 3,488,000 – according to www.worldatlas.com.
• 3,500,000 – according to PWN Encyclopedia.
• 3,500,000 – according to the scientific description by Jerzy Parysek and Alexander Tölle.