Katowice is a centre of science, culture, industry, business, trade, and transportation in Upper Silesia and southern Poland, and the main city in the Upper Silesian Industrial Region.
Katowice is a city in southern Poland, the capital city of the Silesian Region, and a centre of the Upper Silesia and Dąbrowa Basin Metropolis.
Katowice is the seat of the Polish National Radio Symphony and Orchestra. It also hosts the finals of Intel Extreme Masters, an Esports video game tournament.
In 2015, Katowice joined the UNESCO Creative Cities Network and was named a UNESCO City of Music.
The area around Katowice, in Upper Silesia, has been inhabited by ethnic Polish Silesians from its earliest documented history.
Kattowitz gained city status in 1865 in the Prussian Province of Silesia.
Katowice is twinned with: Cologne, Germany; Donetsk, Ukraine; Groningen, Netherlands; Košice, Slovakia; Lviv, Ukraine; Miskolc, Hungary; Mobile, United States; Odense, Denmark; Opava, Czech Republic; Ostrava, Czech Republic; Pula, Croatia; Saint-Étienne, France; Shenyang, China & South Dublin, Ireland.
The urbanised city of Katowice is actually covered by 42% forests and 15% agricultural land.
The whole metropolitan area is the 16th most economically powerful city by GDP in the European Union with an output amounting to $114.5 billion.
The Population of Katowice is 292,774, as of 2019.
