Name | Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship |
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Native name | Województwo warmińsko-mazurskie |
Settlement type | Voivodeship |
Image shield | Warminsko-mazurskie herb.svg |
Map caption | Location within Poland |
Image map1 | Warminsko-Mazurskie powiaty.png |
Map caption1 | Division into counties |
Coordinates region | PL |
Subdivision type | Country |
Subdivision name | |
Seat type | Capital |
Seat | Olsztyn |
Parts type | Counties |
Parts | 2 cities, 19 land counties * |
P1 | Elbląg|p2Olsztyn|p3Bartoszyce County|p4Braniewo County|p5Działdowo County|p6Elbląg County|p7Ełk County|p8Giżycko County|p9Gołdap County|p10Iława County|p11Kętrzyn County|p12Lidzbark County|p13Mrągowo County|p14Nidzica County|p15Nowe Miasto County|p16Olecko County|p17Olsztyn County|p18Ostróda County|p19Pisz County|p20Szczytno County|p21Węgorzewo County |
Coor pinpoint | Olsztyn|latd53|latm47|latNSN|longd20|longm30|longEWE |
Area total km2 | 24191.8 |
Total type | Total |
Population total | 1427091|population_as_of 2006 |
Population density km2 | auto |
Population urban | 856559 |
Population blank1 title | Rural |
Population blank1 | 570532 |
Blank name | Car plates |
Blank info | N |
Website | Official Voivodeship's website |
Footnotes | * further divided into 116 gminas }} |
Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, or Warmia-Masuria Province (in Polish, województwo warmińsko-mazurskie ), is a voivodeship (province) in northeastern Poland. Its capital and largest city is Olsztyn. The voivodeship has an area of and a population of 1,427,091 (as of 2006).
The Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship was created on January 1, 1999, out of the former Olsztyn Voivodeship and parts of Suwałki and Elbląg Voivodeships, pursuant to the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998. The province's name derives from two historic regions, Warmia and Masuria.
The province borders the Podlaskie Voivodeship to the east, the Masovian Voivodeship to the south, the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship to the south-west, the Pomeranian Voivodeship to the west, the Vistula Lagoon to the northwest, and the Kaliningrad Oblast (an exclave of Russia) to the north. The region contains the southern part of East Prussia, which Poland took over from Germany in 1945, while the Soviet Union took over the northern part, the present Kaliningrad Oblast.
The Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship has the largest number of ethnic Ukrainians living in Poland due to forced relocations (such as Operation Vistula) carried out by the Soviet and Polish Communist authorities.
The counties are listed in the following table (ordering within categories is by decreasing population).
The Łuknajno Lake nature reserve (part of Masurian Landscape Park) is a protected wetland site under the Ramsar convention, as well as being designated by UNESCO as a biosphere reserve.
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