Live camera Katowice, Poland

Katowice is a city in southern Poland in Upper Silesia, the capital of the Silesian Voivodeship. It was founded in the 19th century, received the status of a city in 1865, by the decision of the King of Prussia, Wilhelm I. According to the data for 2004, the population of Katowice is 321,163 people, and in total 3,487,000 people live in the metropolitan area. Watch camea online in Katowice Katowice is the center of science, culture, industry, business, trade and transport in Upper Silesia and southern Poland, as well as the main city in the Upper Silesian industrial region. Katowice lies within the urban area with a population of 2,774,460 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.