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The Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan area [3] [4] (also known as Upper Silesian-Moravian metropolitan area or Upper Silesian urban-industrial agglomeration [5]) is a polycentric metropolitan area in southern Poland and northeastern Czech Republic, centered on the cities of Katowice and Ostrava, and has around 5 million inhabitants. [1]
The tower is 85.6 meters high, the tallest for a town hall in the Czech Republic at the time. [3] Under the tower is placed a unique ribbed reinforced concrete slab. The tower clock weighs more than half a ton, and its dial is 3.5m in diameter. In the tower there is an information centre and a viewing terrace at 73 m. [4]
The total population of the region was 1,203,292 (men 49.1%, women 50.9%) in 2019, which makes it the third most populous region in the Czech Republic; [4] 86.9% are Czechs, 3.3% Slovaks, 3.0% Poles, 2.3% Moravians, 0.8% Silesians, 0.3% Germans, and 0.2% Romani, though this last figure might be considerably higher, as Romani often do not ...
Ostrava is the economic centre of the entire Moravian-Silesian Region. With only one exception, all the largest employers with headquarters in Ostrava-City District and at least 1,000 employees have their seat in Ostrava. The largest employers with headquarters in Ostrava and at least 1,500 employees are: [6]
The population of the metropolitan area is 970,189 as of 2024. [1] An alternative definition, the Eurostat Larger Urban Zone , lists a population of 1,153,876. [ 4 ] The Ostrava metropolitan area is sometimes combined with the Katowice metropolitan area to form a wider metropolitan area [ 3 ] [ 5 ] with a population of 5,008,000 (2015). [ 5 ]
The square is located in Ostrava-Jih, the most populous district of the Moravian-Silesian metropole. [1] Developed over the course of the 1950s, it is currently named after one of the most important historical events in Slovak history , the Slovak National Uprising (Czech: Slovenské národní povstání, Slovak : Slovenské národné povstanie).
230.3 km (143.1 mi) 2012: 46.2 million (2017) Website: dpo.cz: The Ostrava tramway network is the third largest tram network in the Czech Republic.