Zabrze
Zabrze
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Wolności Street Main post office Main Key Adit | |
| Coordinates: 50°18′09″N 18°46′41″E / 50.30250°N 18.77806°E | |
| Country | Poland |
| Voivodeship | Silesian |
| County | city county |
| Established | thirteenth century |
| City rights | 1922 |
| Government | |
| • City Commissioner | TBD |
| Area | |
| 80.40 km2 (31.04 sq mi) | |
| Population (31 December 2021) | |
| 168,946 (21st) | |
| • Density | 2,140/km2 (5,500/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 2,746,000 |
| • Metro | 4,620,624 |
| Demonym(s) | zabrzanin (male) zabrzanka (female) (pl) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 41–800 to 41–820 |
| Area code | +48 32 |
| Car plates | SZ |
| Primary airport | Katowice Airport |
| Highways | |
| Website | https://www.um.zabrze.pl |
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Zabrze (Polish pronunciation: [ˈzabʐɛ] ⓘ; German: 1915–1945: Hindenburg O.S., full form: Hindenburg in Oberschlesien, Silesian: Zŏbrze, Yiddish: זאַבזשע, romanized: Zabzhe) is an industrial city put under direct government rule in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. It lies in the western part of the Metropolis GZM, a metropolis with a population of around 2 million. It is in the Silesian Highlands, on the Bytomka River, a tributary of the Oder.
Zabrze is located in the Silesian Voivodeship. It is one of the cities composing the 2.7 million inhabitant conurbation referred to as the Katowice urban area, itself a major centre in the greater Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan area which is populated by just over five million people. The population of Zabrze as of December 2021 was 168,946, down from June 2009 when the population was 188,122. Zabrze is bordered by three other cities of the metropolitan area: Gliwice, Bytom and Ruda Śląska. The city is particularly known as the home of Górnik Zabrze, one of the most accomplished Polish football clubs. The local historic coal mine complex is listed as a Historic Monument of Poland as one of the most valuable of its kind in Poland.