Orzesze is a town in the Silesian Voivodeship of southern Poland, in Mikołów County near Katowice, dating from the Middle Ages as a settlement but remaining a village until it was granted town rights in 1962. It borders the Upper Silesian metropolitan association known as Metropolis GZM, home to about two million people, and lies within the wider Katowice urban area of roughly 2.7 million and the Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan area of about 5.3 million. The town comprises two districts, Jaśkowice and Zawada, along with seven smaller administrative sołectwos. Orzesze had 21,043 inhabitants as of 30 June 2019.
Facts
Area (sq km) Population Estimate Year Latitude50.143889 degrees north 1 Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Orzesze (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)
population 21,631 (2021)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 50.143889, longitude 18.775556
P2046 (area)
area 83.79 sq km
P1082 (population), P585 (point in time)
population 21631 (2021)
View the Source2. GeoNames: Orzesze - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 3089965
50.15595 18.77923 P PPLA3 PL 83 2408 240803 18438 299 Europe/Warsaw
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 299 m
View the Source 3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 50.25, 18.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 50.25, 18.75
50.25 18.75 Cfb
Orzesze (Wikipedia)
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