Katowice (pol)

Katowice

Katowice ranks 870th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Nara Prefecture, Buda, and Hofburg. Memorable people born in Katowice include Maria Goeppert Mayer, Jerzy Kukuczka, and Ernst Wilimowski. Memorable people who died in Katowice include Henryk Górecki, Wojciech Kilar, and Grzegorz Fitelberg. Katowice has been the birth place of many soccer players, and actors and the death place of many composers, and conductors. Katowice is located in Poland.

Katowice is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Katowice urban area. As of 2021, Katowice has an official population of 286,960, and a resident population estimate of around 315,000. Katowice is a central part of the Metropolis GZM, with a population of 2.3 million, and a part of a larger Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan area that extends into the Czech Republic and has a population of around 5 million people, making it one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the European Union. Read more on Wikipedia