Opole is a city in southern Poland on the Oder River (Odra). It has a
population of 125,992 (June 2009) and is the capital of the Opole Voivodeship
and, also the seat of Opole County. Today, many German Upper Silesians and
Poles of German ancestry live in the Opole region; in the city itself, however,
Germans make up less than 3% of the population. It was also the capital of the
historical region Upper Silesia
