Central Europe
Poland
Silesian Voivodeship

Katowice

Katowice is a large city in the in the south of Poland. In 2021 it had a population of 315,000; it's the central city of Metropolis GZM which in turn is part of Upper Silesian-Moravian metropolitan area sprawling across the Czech border.
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  • Type: City with 280,000 residents
  • Description: city in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
  • Also known as: “Catowice”, “Katowicy”, and “Kattowitz”
  • Historically known as: “Stalinogorod”, “Stalinograd”, and “Stalinogród”
  • Neighbors: , , , and
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Spodek and Katowice railway station.

Stadium
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is a multipurpose arena complex in Katowice, , opened on 9 May 1971. Aside from the main dome, the complex includes a gym, an ice rink, a hotel and three large car parks.

Railway station
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is a railway station in Katowice, , , and the largest railway station in the Upper Silesian Industrial Region. Domestic and international trains connect at the station to most major cities in Europe; these are operated primarily by Polskie Koleje Państwowe.

Convention center
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in Katowice is a multipurpose conference and convention centre. It was opened to the public in 2015. It is owned by City of Katowice, Poland and since May 2016 is managed by the PTWP Event Center sp. z o.o. on a multi-year lease from the city.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chorzów and Osiedle Tysiąclecia.

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is an industrial city in the of southwest Poland, with a population of 105,628 in 2021. Many of its attractions are in the Culture Park along the boundary with Katowice.

Suburb
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is a district of Katowice and one of the largest districts in . It is located in the northern part of Katowice, on the land once occupied by the villages of Bederowiec, Sośnina and east Klimzowiec.

Suburb
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is a district of the city of Katowice in southern . It has an area of 3.81 km2 and in 2007 had 35,927 inhabitants. This is the most urbanized part of the city, home of Silesian Parliament, Silesian Museum and along with international companies like ING or Citibank.

Katowice

Latitude
50.2599° or 50° 15′ 36″ north
Longitude
19.0216° or 19° 1′ 18″ east
Population
280,000
Elevation
276 metres (906 feet)
IATA airport code
KTW
United Nations Location Code
PL KTW
Open location code
9F2X725C+XJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 31901874
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3096472
Wiki­data ID
Q588
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Yue Chinese—“Katowice” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Катовице”
  • Afrikaans: “Katowice”
  • Albanian: “Katovica”
  • Albanian: “Katowice”
  • Amharic: “ካቶቪጸ”
  • Arabic: “كاتوفيتسه”
  • Arabic: “مستخدم:محمد القيرواني”
  • Aragonese: “Katowice”
  • Armenian: “Կատովիցե”
  • Asturian: “Katowice”
  • Azerbaijani: “Katovitse”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kattovits”
  • Azerbaijani: “Stalinoqrud”
  • Balinese: “Katowice”
  • Bashkir: “Катовице”
  • Basque: “Katowice”
  • Belarusian: “Катавіцы”
  • Bengali: “কাটোভিসে”
  • Bengali: “কাতোভিস”
  • Bengali: “কাতোভিসে”
  • Betawi: “Katowit”
  • Bosnian: “Katowice”
  • Breton: “Katowice”
  • Bulgarian: “Катовице”
  • Catalan: “Katowice”
  • Cebuano: “Katowice (powiat)”
  • Cebuano: “Katowice”
  • Central Kurdish: “کاتۆڤیتسە”
  • Chechen: “Катовице”
  • Chinese: “Katowice”
  • Chinese: “卡托維治”
  • Chinese: “卡托維茲”
  • Chinese: “卡托维兹”
  • Chuvash: “Катовица”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Katovitse”
  • Croatian: “Katowice”
  • Czech: “Katovice”
  • Czech: “Katowice”
  • Danish: “Katowice”
  • Dhivehi: “Katowice”
  • Dhivehi: “ކެޓޮވިސް”
  • Dutch: “Katowice”
  • Dutch: “Kattowitz”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كاتوفيتسه”
  • Erzya: “Катовице ош”
  • Esperanto: “Katowice”
  • Esperanto: “Kattowitz”
  • Estonian: “Katowice”
  • Faroese: “Katowice”
  • Finnish: “Katowice”
  • French: “Katowice”
  • French: “Kattowitz”
  • Galician: “Katowice”
  • Georgian: “კატოვიცე”
  • German: “Katowice”
  • German: “Kattowitz”
  • German: “Stalinogród”
  • Greek: “Κατοβιτσε”
  • Greek: “Κατοβίτσε”
  • Greek: “Κάτοβιτσε”
  • Guarani: “Katowice”
  • Gujarati: “કેટોવાઇસ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Katowice”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Khà-thok-vì-chṳ”
  • Hebrew: “קטוביץ”
  • Hindi: “कटोविस”
  • Hungarian: “Katowice”
  • Hungarian: “Kattowitz”
  • Icelandic: “Katowice”
  • Ido: “Katowice”
  • Indonesian: “Katowice”
  • Interlingua: “Katowice”
  • Interlingue: “Katowice”
  • Irish: “Katowice”
  • Italian: “Katowice”
  • Italian: “Kattowitz”
  • Japanese: “カトヴィツィ”
  • Japanese: “カトヴィツェ”
  • Japanese: “カトヴィッツ”
  • Javanese: “Katowice”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Katowice”
  • Kalaallisut: “Katowice”
  • Kannada: “ಕತೋವೀಸ್ಸ”
  • Kashubian: “Katowice”
  • Kazakh: “Катовице”
  • Kirghiz: “Katowice”
  • Kirghiz: “Катовице”
  • Korean: “카토비체”
  • Kurdish: “Katovîts”
  • Kurdish: “Katowice”
  • Ladino: “Katowice”
  • Latin: “Katovicum”
  • Latvian: “Katovice”
  • Lithuanian: “Katovicai”
  • Lojban: “katovitses”
  • Lojban: “tcadrkatovitse”
  • Lombard: “Katowice”
  • Low German: “Kattewiets”
  • Low German: “Kattowitz”
  • Luxembourgish: “Katowice”
  • Macedonian: “Катовице”
  • Malagasy: “Katowice”
  • Malay: “Katowice”
  • Malay: “کاتوۏيتسى”
  • Maltese: “Katowice”
  • Manx: “Katowice”
  • Maori: “Katowice”
  • Maori: “Katowihi”
  • Marathi: “कातोवित्सा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Katowice”
  • Mingrelian: “კატოვიცე”
  • Moksha: “Катовице”
  • Moksha: “Катовицэ”
  • Mongolian: “Катовице”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “كاطوڤيتس”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “كاطوڤيتسه”
  • Narom: “Katowice”
  • Nauru: “Katowice”
  • Neapolitan: “Katovice”
  • Nepali: “क्याटोभिस”
  • Northern Sami: “Katowice”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Katowice”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Katowice”
  • Norwegian: “Katowice”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Katowice”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Katowice”
  • Ossetian: “Катовице”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Kattowitz”
  • Persian: “کاتوویتس”
  • Persian: “کاتوویتسه”
  • Piemontese: “Katowice”
  • Polish: “Katowice”
  • Polish: “KTW”
  • Portuguese: “Katowice”
  • Portuguese: “Kattowitz”
  • Quechua: “Katowice”
  • Romanian: “Katowice”
  • Romanian: “Kattowitz”
  • Russian: “Катовице”
  • Russian: “Катовицы”
  • Russian: “Каттовиц”
  • Russian: “Сталиногруд”
  • Sardinian: “Katowice”
  • Scots: “Katowice”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Katowice”
  • Serbian: “Катовице”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Katowice”
  • Sicilian: “Katowice”
  • Silesian: “Katowice”
  • Silesian: “Katowicy”
  • Sindhi: “ڪاتوويتس”
  • Sinhala: “කටෝවිස්”
  • Slovak: “Katovice”
  • Slovenian: “Katovice”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کاتوویتس”
  • Southern Sotho: “Katowice”
  • Spanish: “Katowice”
  • Spanish: “Kattowitz”
  • Swahili: “Katowice”
  • Swedish: “Katowice”
  • Swiss German: “Katowice / Kattowitz”
  • Swiss German: “Kattowitz”
  • Tajik: “Котувитс”
  • Tamil: “கத்தோவித்சே”
  • Tamil: “கெட்டோவிட்ஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Katovitse”
  • Tatar: “Катовитсе”
  • Telugu: “కాటొవీస్”
  • Tetum: “Katowice”
  • Thai: “กาตอวิตแซ”
  • Thai: “คะโตวิตซ”
  • Thai: “คาโตวีตเซ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Katowice”
  • Tok Pisin: “Katowis”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Kattowitz”
  • Turkish: “Katowice ilçesi”
  • Turkish: “Katowice İlçesi”
  • Turkish: “Katowice”
  • Udmurt: “Катовице”
  • Ukrainian: “Катовиці”
  • Ukrainian: “Катовіце”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Katowice”
  • Urdu: “کاتوویتس”
  • Uzbek: “Katovitse”
  • Uzbek: “Katowice”
  • Venetian: “Katowice”
  • Veps: “Katovice”
  • Vietnamese: “Katowice”
  • Vlax Romani: “Katovice”
  • Volapük: “Katowice”
  • Võro: “Katowice”
  • Walloon: “Katowice”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Katowice”
  • Welsh: “Katowice”
  • Western Armenian: “Կատովիցե”
  • Western Armenian: “Քաթովիցէ”
  • Western Frisian: “Katowice”
  • Western Panjabi: “کاتووچ”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡托维兹”
  • Yiddish: “קאטאוויץ”
  • Yue Chinese: “卡托維治”
  • “Katowice”
  • “ma tomo Katowise”

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