Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Lower Silesian Voivodeship
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Coat of arms and logo
Basic data
Capital :	Wroclaw
Voivode :	Jarosław Obremski
Voivodeship Marshal :	Cezary Przybylski
Biggest town:	Wroclaw
ISO 3166-2 :	PL-02
Residents :	2,856,000 (March 31, 2011)
Population density :	145 inhabitants per km²
License plate :	D.
geography
Area :	19,948 km²
- of which country:	? km²
- of which water:	? km²
Expansion:	North-South: up to 172 km West-East: up to 194 km
The highest point:	1603  m
Deepest point:	80  m
Landscape structure
Forests:	29.5%
Waters:	? %
Agriculture:	51.4%
Other:	? %
Administrative division
Independent cities :	4th
Counties :	26th
- Municipalities :	169

The Lower Silesian Voivodeship ( Polish województwo dolnośląskie ) is one of the 16 voivodeships of the Republic of Poland . It covers the southwestern part of Poland and borders within the country to the provinces Lebus (north), Greater Poland (Northeast) and Opole (Southeast) and in the southwest on the German and Czech border. The capital is Wroclaw . In the south of the province lies with the Sudeten belonging Giant Mountains one of the most important tourist regions of Poland, in the west - between Queis and Neisse - the Polish part of Lusatia .

The voivodeship was named after the Lower Silesia region.

coat of arms

Description : A black eagle in gold with a silver chest moon ending in a cross .

Administrative division

The Lower Silesian Voivodeship is divided into 26 administrative districts and four independent cities. Although they also form a district under their own name, they do not belong to it themselves. Lower Silesia is also divided into three districts (Administrative Region):

	district	Powiats in the district
1	Wałbrzyski	Świdnica , Kłodzko , Ząbkowice Śląskie , Dzierżoniów
2	Legnicki	Głogów , Jawor , Lubin , Polkowice , Złotoryja
3	Jeleniogórski	Bolesławiec , Kamienna Góra , Lubań , Lwówek Śląski , Zgorzelec

One district cities

1. Wroclaw (638.586)
2. Waldenburg (Wałbrzych) (114,568)
3. Liegnitz (Legnica) (100.324)
4. Deer Mountain (Jelenia Góra) (80,072)

Counties

Powiaty in Lower Silesia

circle	German name	Population (December 31, 2017)
Wroclaw	Wroclaw	141,337
Bolesławiec	Bunzlau	90.173
Ząbkowice	Frankenstein	66.009
Zgorzelec	Goerlitz	90,584
Złotoryja	Goldberg in Silesia	44,126
Kłodzko	Bald	160,465
Głogow	Glogau	89,933
Góra	Guhrau	35,473
Jelenia Gora	Hirschberg in the Giant Mountains	64,178
Yes	Yeah	50,947
Kamienna Góra	State hat in Silesia	43,999
Luban	Lauban	54.991
Legnica	Liegnitz	55,233
Lubin	Lüben	106,320
Lwówek	Löwenberg	46,360
Milicz	Militsch	37,125
Środa Śląska	Neumarkt in Silesia	53,722
Oleśnica	Oils	106.907
Oława	Ohlau	76.505
Polkowice	Polkwitz	63,017
Dzierżoniów	Reichenbach in the Owl Mountains	102.077
Świdnica	Schweidnitz	158.392
Strzelin	Chasing	44.006
Trzebnica	Trebnitz	84,495
Wałbrzych	Waldenburg	56,446
Wołów	Wohlau	47,124

The population development in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship was highest in 2010.

geography

Biggest cities

Cathedral Island in Wroclaw

Fürstenstein Castle in Wałbrzych

Piast Castle in Legnica

City Hall in Kamienna Góra

With around 639,000 inhabitants, the provincial capital of Wroclaw is the fourth largest city in the country and by far the largest in the Lower Silesian province.

city	German name	Resident December 31, 2017
Wroclaw	Wroclaw	638.586
Wałbrzych	Waldenburg	113,621
Legnica	Liegnitz	100,324
Jelenia Gora	Hirschberg in the Giant Mountains	80,072
Lubin	Lüben	72,892
Głogów	Glogau	68.179
Świdnica	Schweidnitz	57,671
Bolesławiec	Bunzlau	39,084
Oleśnica	Oils	37,300
Dzierżoniów	Reichenbach in the Owl Mountains	33,653
Oława	Ohlau	32,883
Zgorzelec	Goerlitz	30,738
Bielawa	Langenbielau	30.207
Kłodzko	Bald	27.193
Yes	Yeah	23,266
Świebodzice	Freiburg in Silesia	22,840
Polkowice	Polkwitz	22,504
Nowa Ruda	Neurode	22,455
Luban	Lauban	21,318
Kamienna Góra	State hat in Silesia	19,348

See also : List of cities in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Rivers

• Glatzer Neisse
• Lusatian Neisse (border river)
• Or
• Ohle
• Tan
• Bober
• Kaczawa

politics

The Voivodeship Office in Wroclaw

In the Lower Silesian Voivodeship there is an elected voivodship seymik and voivodeship marshal and a voivod appointed by the government.

Voivodeship Seemik

The Voivodship Sejmik was elected in 2018 as follows:

Lower Silesian Voivodeship (2018)

Election committee	Mandates
Platforma Obywatelska (PO)	13/36
Law and Justice (PiS)	14/36
Polish People's Party (PSL)	1/36
Bezpartyjni Samorządowcy (BS)	6/36
Federation of the Democratic Left (SLD)	0/36

The following groups have now formed:

Lower Silesian Voivodeship (2016)

fraction	Mandates
Bezpartyjni Samorządowcy (BS) Obywatelski Dolny Śląsk (ODS) Non-party	14/36 7/36 7/36
Dolnośląski Club Porozumienie Platforma Obywatelska (PO) Polish People's Party (PSL) Federation of the Democratic Left (SLD)	11/36 6/36 4/36 1/36
Law and Justice (PiS)	9/39
Non-attached	2/36

Voivodeship Marshal

Voivodeship Marshal has been Cezary Przybylski ( Bezpartyjni Samorządowcy ) since 2014 .

economy

Compared with the GDP of the EU expressed in purchasing power standards , the province reached 2,015 an index of 76 (EU-27 = 100). The unemployment rate in 2005 was 22.8 percent. By December 2009 it had dropped to 12.5 percent.

With a value of 0.865, Lower Silesia ranks 3rd among the 16 Voivodeships of Poland in the Human Development Index .

Partnerships

The Lower Silesian Voivodeship has partnerships with various European regional authorities. These include the German federal states of Lower Saxony and Saxony , the Czech regions Liberecký kraj , Pardubický kraj , Královéhradecký kraj and Olomoucký kraj , Alsace in France, Västmanland in Sweden, Ringkøbing in Denmark, the regions of Dnipropetrovsk and Oblast Kirowohrad in the Ukraine, the Oblast Leningrad in Russia, Emilia-Romagna in Italy, the West Midlands in the United Kingdom, Austrian Styria , the US state Connecticut and the Spanish regions of Castile and León and the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country .

Sports

Nationally known are the soccer clubs Śląsk Wrocław and Zagłębie Lubin , both of which play in the highest Polish league, the Ekstraklasa .

The annual Wroclaw Marathon is also of great importance.

Web links

Commons : Lower Silesian Voivodeship  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Lower Silesian Voivodeship  - travel guide

• Homepage of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship (Polish)
• Lower Silesia - the legacy of the past immortalized in monuments

Footnotes

1. ↑ Results of the 2011 census, Główny Urząd Statystyczny, Wyniki Narodowego Spisu Powszechnego Ludności i Mieszkań 2011. Warsaw, March 2012. Online ( Memento of January 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
2. ↑ Official website of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship Office (Polish)
3. ^ Walter Schmidt : Wohlau 1848/49. A Silesian district town during the revolution. "Schlesischer Kreisbote", Wohlauer Political Association and Democratic Association of Guhrau. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2017.
4. ↑ Eurostat. Retrieved April 15, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Regional unemployment in the European Union, Bulgaria and Romania in 2005 (PDF) ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Central Statistics Office of Poland (CIS), Bezrobotni oraz stopa bezrobocia wg województw, grudzień 2009 ( memento of April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), February 3, 2010
7. ^ Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab. Retrieved August 12, 2018 . 

Coordinates: 51 ° 5 '  N , 16 ° 24'  E