Place:Piekary Śląskie, Ślaskie, Poland

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NamePiekary Śląskie
Alt namesPiekarysource: USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Piekary Ślaskiesource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeTown
Coordinates50.4°N 18.95°E
Located inŚlaskie, Poland
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Piekary Śląskie is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. The north district of the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union – metropolis with the population of 2 million. Located in the Silesian Highlands, on the Brynica river (tributary of the Vistula).

It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship since its formation in 1999, previously in Katowice Voivodeship, and before then, of the Autonomous Silesian Voivodeship. Piekary Śląskie is one of the cities of the 2.7 million conurbation – Katowice urban area and within a greater Silesian metropolitan area populated by about 5,294,000 people. The population of the city is 55,088 (2019).

Piekary is a spiritual center of Upper Silesia, a Marian shrine which is a pilgrimage site for thousands of the faithful, and a mining town.

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