Rybnik Coal Area

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Rybnik
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Wodzisław Śląski
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Jastrzębie-Zdrój
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Żory
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Racibórz
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Rydułtowy
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Pszów
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Radlin

The Rybnik Coal Area (Polish: Rybnicki Okręg Węglowy, ROW) is an industrial region in southern Poland.[1] It is located in the Silesian Voivodeship,[1] in a basin between the Vistula and Oder rivers, sited on the Rybnik Plateau (Polish: Płaskowyż Rybnicki) between Katowice (Metropolis GZM) to the north and Ostrava on the south-west. It is part of the Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan area populated by 5,294,000 people[2] and the Kraków-Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan region [Wikidata] populated by about 7 million. According to scientific description by Paweł Swianiewicz and Urszula Klimska this area has 507,000 people,[3] according to European Spatial Planning Observation Network - 634,000 people (525,000[2] + 109,000[2] by Racibórz). Area: about 1,300 km2.[1]

  1. ^ a b c (in Polish) "Rybnicki Okręg Węglowy" - PWN Encyclopedia
  2. ^ a b c European Spatial Planning Observation Network (ESPON)"Project 1.4.3". Archived from the original on 2009-07-28. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
  3. ^ "Społeczne i polityczne zróżnicowanie aglomeracji w Polsce" Archived 2009-01-24 at the Wayback Machine - Paweł Swianiewicz, Urszula Klimska; University of Warsaw 2005