Draft:Aglomeracja rybnicko-jastrzębska

Rybnik-Jastrzębie Agglomeration - a polycentric agglomeration in the western part of the Silesian Voivodeship, whose inner-city areas are large cities with county rights: Rybnik, Jastrzębie-Zdrój, Żory and adjacent urban communes: Pszów, Radlin, Rydułtowy and Wodzisław Śląski.

Agglomeration according to the marshal's office
In 2004, the Marshal's Office of the Silesian Voivodeship indicated the inner-city areas of the Rybnik-Jastrzębie agglomeration, which includes Jastrzębie-Zdrój, Pszów, Radlin, Rybnik, Rydułtowy, Wodzisław Śląski and Żory. The adjacent communes are functionally linked to the agglomeration: Gaszowice, Jejkowice, Marklowice, Mszana and Świerklany and the regional center Racibórz, supporting its development.

The Department of Strategic and Spatial Planning of the Marshal's Office assessed that the agglomeration is an economically, culturally and scientifically strong nodal center connected with the Ostrava agglomeration and the Opole Voivodeship. It was found that the Rybnik-Jastrzębie agglomeration tends to develop polycentric with the center in Rybnik and to increase the number of inhabitants of the agglomeration, as well as to develop settlements in transport corridors connecting the agglomeration with the Czech Republic and the Ostrava agglomeration through the former border crossing in Chałupki.