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 (Upper-Silesian Metropolis) to the north and Ostrava on the south-west. Part a Silesian metropolitan area populated by 5,294,000 people[2] and Silesian metropolitan region populated by about 7 million. According to scientific description by Paweł Swianiewicz and Urszula Klimska this area have 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]
Main cities
Adjacent main cities and statistics (30.06.2009):[4]
| City / Town |
Population |
Area (km2) |
Density (km−2) |
| Rybnik |
141,387 |
148.36 |
952.9 |
| Jastrzębie-Zdrój |
93,455 |
88.62 |
1,054.5 |
| Żory |
61,982 |
64.59 |
959.6 |
| Racibórz |
56,675 |
74.96 |
756.0 |
| Wodzisław Śląski |
49,386 |
49.62 |
995.2 |
| Rydułtowy |
21,833 |
14.95 |
1,460.4 |
| Radlin |
17,673 |
12.53 |
1,410.4 |
| Pszów |
13,753 |
20.42 |
673.5 |
| Total |
456,144 |
474.05 |
962.2 |
Area
Adjacent county (powiat) and statistics (30.06.2009):[4]
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