Gliwice

Gliwice is a town in Upper Silesia, in southern Poland. The metropolis is placed within the Silesian Highlands, at the Klodnica River a tributary of the Oder. It lies about 25 km West from Katowice, local capital of the Silesian Voivodeship. Gliwice is the westernmost metropolis of the Upper Silesian town, a conurbation of 1.9 million people and is the 1 to 3 biggest city of this location, with 183,392 everlasting citizens as of 2015. It additionally lies inside the larger Upper Silesian metropolitan location which has a populace of about 5.3 million human beings and spans across maximum of eastern Upper Silesia, western Lesser Poland and the Moravian Silesian Region within the Czech Republic.

It is one of the primary college towns in Poland, thanks to the Silesian University of Technology, which became based in 1945 by using lecturers of Lwow University of Technology expelled from Soviet Ukraine in 1945 to 48. Over 20,000 human beings look at in Gliwice. Gliwice is a crucial business middle of Poland. Following a monetary transformation in the 1990s, Gliwice switched from steelworks and coal mining to automotive and device enterprise. The closing ultimate coal mine in Gliwice became set to close before 2021 however following its top economic results this choice has been postponed.