Rybnik Coal Area
Rybnik Coal Area is an industrial region in southern Poland. It is located in the Silesian Voivodeship, in a basin between the Vistula and Oder rivers, sited on the Rybnik Plateau between Katowice to the north and Ostrava on the south-west. Part a Silesian metropolitan area populated by 5,294,000 people and Silesian metropolitan region populated by about 7 million. According to scientific description by Paweł Swianiewicz and Urszula Klimska this area have 507,000 people, according to European Spatial Planning Observation Network - 634,000 people. Area: about 1,300 km².
Main cities
Adjacent main cities and statistics :| City / Town | Population | Area | Density |
| Rybnik | |||
| Jastrzębie-Zdrój | |||
| Żory | |||
| Racibórz | |||
| Wodzisław Śląski | |||
| Rydułtowy | |||
| Radlin | |||
| Pszów | |||
| Total |
Area
Adjacent county and statistics :| County | Population | Area | Density |
| Wodzisław County | |||
| Rybnik city-county | |||
| Racibórz County | |||
| Jastrzębie-Zdrój city-county | |||
| Rybnik County | |||
| Żory city-county | |||
| Total |