• total area: 293 sq. kilometres
• agricultural land: 129 sq. kilometres
• forests and woodland: 16.7 sq. kilometres
• water: 10,0 sq. kilometres
• land used for transport: 28.48 sq. kilometres
• residential areas: 29,0 sq. kilometres

Location

• northern geographic latitude: 51 07 ' (in degrees and minutes)
  
• eastern geographic longitude: 17 02 ' (in degrees and minutes)
  
• extent from south to north: 19,4 kilometres
  
• extent from west to east: 26,3 kilometres
  
• the highest point of the city: 143 m (Oporów)
  
• the lowest point: 107, 2 m (Pracze Odrzańskie)
  

Natural conditions

• average temperatures: 9,1 °C
• precipitation: 620 mm
  
• average cloudiness (in octants): 5,7
  
• average wind velocity: 3,1 m/s
  
• length the River Odra within the boundaries of Wroclaw: 26 kilometres
  
• length the River Ślęza within the boundaries of Wroclaw: 16 kilometres
  
• length the River Oława within the boundaries of Wroclaw: 8 kilometres
  
• length the River Bystrzyca within the boundaries of Wroclaw: 15 kilometres
  
• length the River Widawa within the boundaries of Wroclaw: 20 kilometres

Population of Wrocław

• total population: 635,2 thousand
• female: 338 thousand
• male: 297.4 thousand
• number of marriages entered into: 2,854
• natural increase:
  - per 1000 population: 0,86

Education
(as at the beginning of the school year 2005/2006)

• general kindergartens
  - number of establishments: 116
  - number of pupils: 4.5 thousand
• general primary schools
  - number of schools: 102
  - number of pupils: 30.719 thousand
• general  secondary schools
  - number of schools: 73
  - number of students: 19.458 thousand
• general over high schools
  - number of schools: 95
  - number of students: 26.810 thousand
• superior schools:
  - number of schools: 22
  - number of students: 141,388 tys.
• schools for adult
  - number of schools: 62
  - number of students: 6,934 tys.
• institutions of tertiary education
  of which:
  - public: 10
  - private: 10
  - total number of students: 128.66 thousand,
  of which in private institutions: 54.6 thousand

Joblessness

• registered unemployed: 23.287 thousand
  - women: 13.019 thousand
  - men: 10.268 thousand
  - unemployed not entitled to benefits: 10.268 thousand
• unemployment rate: 8,1%

Business entities

• number of registered business entities: 90.6 thousand
• state enterprises: 38
• cooperatives: 404
• commercial-law partnerships and companies: 6.9 thousand
• joint stock companies
  - single-member State Treasury companies: 15
  - companies with foreign capital: 47
  
• limited liability companies
  - single-member State Treasury companies: 6
  - companies with foreign capital: 2 thousand
  
• sole proprietorships: 66.6 thousand

Source: Statistical Yearbook of Wrocław 2006