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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  • City with about 278,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 250 metres (800 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code KTW
  • Description: city in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
  • Also known as
    “Catowice”
    “Katowicy”
    “Kattowitz”
  • Historically known as
    “Stalinogorod”
    “Stalinograd”
    “Stalinogród”
  • Neighbors
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Spodek and Katowice railway station.
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is a multipurpose arena complex in Katowice, , opened on 9 May 1971.
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is a railway station…
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in Katowice is a multipurpose conference and convention centre.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chorzów and Osiedle Tysiąclecia.
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is an industrial city in the…
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is a housing estate and district…
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is the central district of the city of Katowice in southern .

Katowice

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Latitude
50.2599° or 50° 15′ 36″ north
Longitude
19.0216° or 19° 1′ 18″ east
UN/LOCODE
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: “কাতোভিসে”
  • Betawi: “Katowit”
  • Bosnian: “Katowice”
  • Breton: “Katowice”
  • Bulgarian: “Катовице”
  • Catalan: “Katowice”
  • Cebuano: “Katowice (powiat)”
  • Cebuano: “Katowice”
  • Central Kurdish: “کاتۆڤیتسە”
  • Chechen: “Катовице”
  • 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”
  • Guarani: “Katowice”
  • Gujarati: “કેટોવાઇસ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Katowice”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Khà-thok-vì-chṳ”
  • Hausa: “Katowice”
  • Hebrew: “קטוביץ”
  • Hindi: “कटोविचे”
  • Hindi: “कातोवित्से”
  • 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”
  • Jèrriais: “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”
  • 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): “Cattowīc”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Katowice”
  • Oromo: “Katovitse”
  • Ossetian: “Катовице”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਟੋਵਿਸੇ”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Kattowitz”
  • Persian: “کاتوویتس”
  • Piemontese: “Katowice”
  • Polish: “Katowice”
  • Polish: “KTW”
  • Portuguese: “Katowice”
  • Portuguese: “Kattowitz”
  • Pushto: “کاتوویتسه”
  • 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”
  • Somali: “Katovitse”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کاتوویتس”
  • Southern Sotho: “Katowice”
  • Spanish: “Katowice”
  • Spanish: “Kattowitz”
  • Swahili: “Katowice”
  • Swedish: “Katowice”
  • Swiss German: “Katowice / Kattowitz”
  • Swiss German: “Kattowitz”
  • Tajik: “Катовице”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • “ma tomo Katowise”

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