Katowice
City in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Also known as Kattowitz
- Country
- Poland(since 1990)
- , Weimar Republic(1918–1922)
- , Second Polish Republic(1922–1939)
- +2 more
- Located in
- Silesian Voivodeship(since 1999)
- , Katowice district(1873–1951)
- , Katowickie Voivodeship(1950–1975)
- +1 more
- Population
- 278,090(June 30, 2024)
- , 279,200(December 31, 2023)
- , 279,119(2023)
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- +7 more
- Area
- 164.67 km²
- Elevation
- 245 m
- , 357 m
- , 272 m
- Head of government
- Marcin Krupa(since 2014)
- , Piotr Uszok(1998–2014)
- , Adam Kocur(1928–1939)
- +2 more
- Founded
- 1598
- Postal code
- 40-001–40-999
Overview
Over time
Dated values recorded in Wikidata, each with its own source
All data
227 statements · 25% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Twinned administrative body
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- Official name
- Katowice(since 1956)
- Katowice(1922–1953)
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Sources- 1.katowice.eu/
- 2.mhk.katowice.pl/index.php/edukacja/historia-miastaRetrieved 2023-01-26
- Kattowitz(until 1922)
- Stalinogród(1953–1956) named after: Joseph Stalin · ipa transcription: stalʲinɔɡrut · named by: Sejm of the Republic of Poland
- Capital of
- Silesian Voivodeship(since 1999)
- Metropolitan Association of Upper Silesia
- Silesian Voivodeship(1920–1939)
- Katowickie Voivodeship(1950–1975)
- Katowice Voivodeship(1975–1998)
- Upper Silesia Province(1941–1945)
- Kattowitz Government Region(1939–1945)
- Silesian Voivodeship(1945–1950)
- Native label
- Katowice pronunciation audio: LL-Q809 (pol)-Olaf-Katowice.wav · ipa transcription: katɔvʲit͡sɛ
- Demonym
- katowiczanin applies to part: masculine singular
- katowiczanka applies to part: feminine singular
- katowiczanie
- katowiczanki applies to part: feminine plural
- Kattowitzer
- Katovičan applies to part: masculine animate
- Kattowitzerin applies to part: feminine singular
- Katovičanka applies to part: feminine singular
- Member of
- Creative Cities Network(since 2015) subject has role: City of Music
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- International Cities of Refuge Network
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- Creative Cities Network(since 2015) subject has role: City of Music
- Significant event
- Katowice Conference(1884)
- town privileges(September 11, 1865)
- First Silesian Uprising(1919–1919)
- Second Silesian Uprising(1920–1920)
- Third Silesian Uprising(1921–1921)
- Katowice Trade Hall roof collapse(January 28, 2006)
- Ioannes Paulus II in Poland(June 20, 1983)
- Pacification of Wujek(December 16, 1981)
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- Coordinates of easternmost point
- 50.2642°N, 19.1290°E
- Coordinates of northernmost point
- 50.2977°N, 19.0683°E
- Coordinates of southernmost point
- 50.1301°N, 19.0739°E
- Coordinates of westernmost point
- 50.2327°N, 18.8916°E
- Social media followers
- 5,633(August 10, 2022) x (twitter) numeric user id: 167306471
- Male population
- 134,884(March 31, 2021)
- Female population
- 150,827(March 31, 2021)
On other databases
70 identifiers linking Katowice across the web's reference databases
- ArchINFORM location ID8478
- Article ID in the Lithuanian Universal Encyclopedia Onlinekatowice
- BabelNet ID00048844n
- BBC Things IDb0eb9591-0d82-4284-b258-0b1be4ed533c
- BHCL UUID7de6081f-78ad-490b-a5ea-35df1ed4dcfc
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID121136006
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online IDkatowice
- Canadiana Name Authority IDncf10431979
- Curlie IDRegional/Europe/Poland/Provinces/Slaskie/Katowice/
- De Agostini IDKattowitz
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDplace/Katowice
- Encyclopædia Universalis IDkatowice
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)2JwiZE
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)376808
- Eska.pl topic IDtg-eRzK-g1Mr-WQTE
- Facebook location ID111655468853732
- FactGrid item IDQ80810
- FAST ID1207198
- Freebase ID/m/0bld8
- GeoNames ID3096472
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID7007685
- GitHub topickatowice
- GND ID4097725-0
- GNS Unique Feature ID12088520
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana IDkatowice-0
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)0035448
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDKatowice
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)5761706
- Hrvatska enciklopedija ID30914
- IdRef ID02952864X
- Image Archive, Herder InstituteQ588
- INaturalist place ID18149
- Interlingual Index IDi83900
- J9U entity ID987007557254105171
- Jewish Encyclopedia ID (Russian)12008
- KBpedia IDKatowice-ProvincePoland
- KSW place ID91412
- Lex IDKatowice
- Library of Congress Authorities IDn79148228
- Mapy.com IDosm&id=12571
- Museum-digital place ID7279
- MusicBrainz area IDc0ed7976-d04c-475a-b2eb-759e6759ea4f
- National Library of Israel ID (old)000977714
- NE.se IDkatowice
- NL CR AUT IDge129551
- OmegaWiki Defined Meaning1221024
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID3921224
- OpenStreetMap relation ID1513057
- OpenWeatherMap city ID3096472
- OSM Name Suggestion Index IDmiastokatowice-83282a
- Proleksis enciklopedija ID30475
- Quora topic IDKatowice-Poland-1
- Reddit topic ID (obsolete)katowice
- SIMC place ID0937474
- Slovak National Library (VIAF) IDvtls002007680
- SNARC IDQ2472
- Subredditkatowice
- TERC municipality code2469011
- Treccani IDkatowice
- UN/LOCODEPLKTW
- VIAF cluster ID132516015
- Wellcome Collection concept IDr9ehe5by
- Who's on First ID101752127
- WikiKids IDKatowice
- WordNet 3.1 Synset ID09006380-n
- World Historical Gazetteer place ID13822282
- WorldCat Entities IDE39PBJyGRjDMR33WfXmJqbWdQq
- X (Twitter) usernameumkatowice
- Yale LUX IDplace/5e53eef2-aff7-4529-b580-27e650858def
- YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe IDKatowice
