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Voivodships of Poland


A voivodship (in Polish województwo) is a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland since the 14th century. As a result of Local Government Reogranization Act of 1998, 16 new voivodships were created (effective January 1, 1999) and replaced the 49 voivodships which had existed since 1 July 1975.

Today's provinces are largely based on the country's historical regions, whereas those of 1975-1998 were centered on and named for individual cities. The new units range in area from under 10,000 km˛ (Opole Voivodship) to over 35,000 km˛ (Masovian Voivodship), and in population from one million (Lubusz Voivodship) to over five million (Masovian Voivodship).

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Poland's present voivodships (since 1999)

 

Voivodships are combined into bigger regions, that are used for statistical reports.

See also Map of Polish Regions

See also List of capitals of subnational entities.

For a table with area and population figures, see the Polish ("Polski") version of this page.


Poland  
Voivodships of Poland
Greater Poland | Kuyavia-Pomerania | Lesser Poland | Lodz | Lower Silesia | Lublin | Lubusz | Masovia | Opole | Podlachia | Pomerania Swietokrzyskie | Silesia | Subcarpathia | Warmia and Masuria | West Pomerania
Principal cities
Warsaw | Łódź | Kraków | Wrocław | Poznań | Gdańsk | Szczecin | Bydgoszcz | Lublin | Katowice | Białystok | Częstochowa | Gdynia | Toruń Radom | Kielce | Rzeszów | Olsztyn

Polish voivodships 1975-1998 (49)

from 1989 Third Polish Republic

 

This reorganisation of administrative division of Poland was mainly a result of local government reform acts of 1973-1975. In place of three level administrative division (voivodship, county, commune), new two-level administrative division was introduced (49 small voidships and communes). The three smallest voivodships: Warsaw, Cracow and Lodz had a special status of city voivodship; the city president (mayor) was also province governor.

(English name, Polish name, abbrevation, capital city)


Polish voivodships 1950-1975 (17+5)

 

In 1950 new voivodships created: Koszalin - previously part of Szczecin, Opole - previously part of Katowice, and Zielona Góra - previously part of Poznan, Wroclaw and Szczecin voivodships.


1950-1975 2 cities with voivodship status: Warsaw and Lodz,
1957-1975 5 cities with voivodship status: additionally Wroclaw , Kraków and Poznan.


Polish voivodships 1945-1950 (14+2)

People's Republic of Poland

 

Newly acquired teritories in the west and north organized into the voivodships of Szczecin, Wroclaw, Olsztyn and partly joined to Gdansk, Katowice and Poznan voivodships.


Polish voivodships 1921-1939 (16+1)

Second Polish Republic

 

Polish voivodships 1569-1795

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Province of Greater Poland

Province of Lesser Poland

Grand Duchy of Lithuania

  • Wilno Voivodship (województwo wileńskie, Wilno/Vilnius)
  • Troki Voivodship (województwo trockie, Troki/Trakai)
  • Nowogrodek Voivodship (województwo nowogrodzkie, Nowogrodek)
  • Brest-Litovsk Voivodship (województwo brzesko-litewskie, Brest-Litovsk)
  • Minsk Voivodship (województwo mińskie, Minsk)
  • Chernigov Voivodship (województwo czernichowskie, Chernigov)
  • Mscislaw Voivodship (województwo mścisławskie, Mscislaw)
  • Smolensk Voivodship (województwo smoleńskie, Smolensk)
  • Vitebsk Voivodship (województwo witebskie, Vitebsk)
  • Polock Voivodship (województwo połockie, Polotsk)
  • Duchy of Samogita (księstwo żmudzkie, Miedniki-Wornie)

Livonia

  • Wenden Voivodship (województwo wendeńskie, Wenden) since 1598
  • Dorpat Voivodship (województwo dorpackie, Dorpat) since 1598
  • Parnava Voivodship (województwo parnawskie, Parnava) since 1598
  • Duchy of Courland and Semigalia (księstwo Kurlanii i Semigalii, Mitawa)

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