Prof. Genowefa Grabowska Pose³ do Parlamentu Europejskiego

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THE SILESIAN VOIVODESHIP

Area: 12 294 km2

Population: 4 mln 830 people

Number of poviats: 36

Number of boroughts: 167

Number of towns: 69

The Silesian Voivodeship is situated in the southern part of Poland. The Silesian Voivodeship is the most important industrial region in the country. It boarders the following voivodeships: opolskie, ³ódzkie, ¶wiêtokrzyskie and ma³opolskie as well as the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

It has got an exellent connections with the transeuropean transport network. Within this area the main transeuropean routes cross. Also 600 km from Katowice, there are six European capital cities:

Warsaw, Prague, Bratislava, Vienna, Budapest and Berlin.

The Voivodeship is of polycentric nature – there is no one core centre that would fulfil the metropolitan functions ( administration, finances, insurance, schools of higher education, culture).Larger companies are mostly concentrated in large towns of the agglomaration, such as : Katowice, Sosnowiec, Bytom, Gliwice, Zabrze, Chorzów. The significant role is also played by the capitals of the sub-regions : Rybnik, Bielsko-Bia³a and Czêstochowa.

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