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Katowice (; , , officially Miasto Katowice) is a city in southwestern Poland and the center of the Silesian Metropolis, with a population of 301,834 .

Katowice is a center of science, culture, industry, business, trade, and transportation in Upper Silesia and southern Poland, and the main city in the Upper Silesian Industrial Region. Katowice lies within an urban zone, with a population of 2,746,460 according to Eurostat, and also part of the wider Silesian metropolitan area, with a population of 5,294,000 according to the European Spatial Planning Observation Network. Today, Katowice is emerging metropolis. The whole metropolitan area is the 16th most economically powerful city by GDP in the European Union with an output amounting to $114.5 billion.

Katowice has been the capital of the Silesian Voivodeship since its formation in 1999. Previously it was the capital of the Katowice Voivodeship, the autonomous Silesian Voivodeship in Poland, and the Province of Upper Silesia in Germany.

Katowice (parliamentary constituency)

Katowice is a Polish parliamentary constituency in the Silesian Voivodeship. It elects twelve members of the Sejm and three members of the Senate.

The district has the number '31' for elections to the Sejm and '30' for elections to the Senate, and is named after the city of Katowice. It includes the county of Bieruń-Lędziny and the city-counties of Katowice, Chorzów, Mysłowice, Piekary Śląskie, Ruda Śląska, Siemianowice Śląskie, Świętochłowice, and Tychy.

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My allotted two-week holiday from the Katowice Machinery Works was almost up, and there was one small errand I had yet to perform.

I could have gone to a nice resort on the Black Sea with girls in bathing suits and been back at my comfortable chair in the Katowice Machinery Works.

Actually, since I had left my home in Katowice, six weeks earlier, I had used my binoculars exactly once and the compass not at all.

Whatever lies ahead in Katowice, Berel Jastrow knows that nothing can be worse than Lamsdorf.

There were many crowded product sections in our existing system, and much of the job would consist of moving them to Katowice and enlarging and modernizing them in the process.

Tell me, what would happen to an engineer at your old Katowice Machinery Works if he started spending all of his time and the company’s money working on a perpetual-motion machine?

If you want, you can be back at your desk at the Katowice Machinery Works tomorrow morning.

Situated in southern Poland, southeast of Katowice, it is now a museum and archive.