Pyskowice
Sign in to savePyskowice () is a town in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. Outer town of the Metropolis GZM – metropolis with a population of 2 million. Located in the Silesian Highlands.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Pyskowice
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Rynek Pyskowice, 2022 2.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Aerial view of the town center
- Settlement.image_shield
- POL Pyskowice COA.svg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Poland
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Voivodeship
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- 22px Silesian
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Gliwice
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Gmina
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Pyskowice (urban gmina)
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Adam Wójcik
- Settlement.established_title
- First mentioned
- Settlement.established_date
- 1256
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 31.89
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- urban municipality of Poland
- Country
- Polish People's Republic
- Located in
- Gliwice County
- Continent
- Europe
- Population
- 17394
- Area
- 31.89
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Gmina Zbrosławice
- Official website
- www.pyskowice.pl
- Image
- Rynek Pyskowice, 2022 2.jpg
- Significant event
- Upper Silesia plebiscite
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- twinned administrative body
- Flörsheim am Main
- postal code
- 44-120
- P8168
- Mravi
- native label
- Pyskowice
- Commons category
- Pyskowice
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Pyskowice
- P6482
- Pyskowice
- male population
- 8378
- female population
- 9016
- time of earliest written record
- 1256-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
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Pyskowice () is a town in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. Outer town of the Metropolis GZM – metropolis with a population of 2 million. Located in the Silesian Highlands.
It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship since its formation in 1999, previously it was in Katowice Voivodeship. Pyskowice is one of the towns of the 2.7 million conurbation – Katowice urban area and within a greater Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan area populated by about 5,294,000 people. The population of the town is 18,432 (2019). It borders Gliwice, one of the largest cities of the metropolitan area, in the south.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pyskowice” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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