Rybnik

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Rybnik (pronounced: ) is a city in southern Poland, in the Silesian Voivodship, close to the border with the Czech Republic, about 290 km south of the Polish capital Warsaw (Warszawa) and about 100 km west of Krak?w, on the southern outskirts of the Upper Silesian industrial and metropolitan agglomeration. It forms the centre of the Rybnik Coal Region (Rybnicki Okr?g W?glowy, ROW).

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141,374 inhabitants (including 0.03% foreigners), density: 961 per km?. (as of 31 Dec 2003). Rybnik ranks as Poland's 25th largest city. Rybnik's unemployment is significantly lower (13%) than the national average of 18%.

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