Podlaskie Voivodeship
Voivodeship Podlaskie |
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Basic data | |
Capital : | Białystok |
Voivode : | Maciej Żywno |
Voivodeship Marshal : | Jarosław Dworzański |
Biggest town: | Białystok |
ISO 3166-2 : | PL-20 |
License Plate | B. |
Residents : | 1,190,253 (June 30, 2015) |
Population density : | 59 inhabitants per km² |
geography | |
Area : | 20,180 km² |
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Expansion: | North-South: up to 229 km West-East: 48–147 km |
The highest point: | 298 m |
Deepest point: | ? m |
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Forests: | ? % |
Waters: | ? % |
Agriculture: | ? % |
Other: | ? % |
Administrative division | |
Independent cities : | 3 |
Counties : | 14th |
- Municipalities : | 118 |
The Podlaskie Voivodeship ( Polish województwo podlaskie ) is one of the 16 voivodships that make up the Republic of Poland . The 1999 from the provinces Białystok and Łomża and a part of Suwalki emerged Province is located in northeast Poland, is from the provinces Warmia and Mazury , Mazovia and Lublin enclosed and confined in a corner region of the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad and Lithuania in the north and more to Belarus in the east. The capital Białystok has around 295,000 inhabitants, otherwise Podlaskie is the least populated and structured voivodeship in Poland. Members of a Belarusian and a Tatar - Muslim minority live here.
Administrative division
The Podlaskie Voivodeship is divided into 14 powiats (districts) , with three cities remaining independent. They themselves do not belong to the districts named after them.
One district cities
Counties
- Augustów (59,252)
- Białystok (145,486)
- Bielsk Podlaski (56,879)
- Grajewo (48,468)
- Hajnówka (44,725)
- Kolno (39,236)
- Łomża (51,521)
- Mońki (41,672)
- Sejny (20,718)
- Siemiatycze (46,263)
- Sokółka (69,733)
- Suwałki (35,907)
- Wysokie Mazowieckie (58,335)
- Zambrów (44,337)
(Resident on June 30, 2015)
geography
Biggest cities
Białystok, the capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship, is the only major city in north-eastern Poland. In the very sparsely populated surrounding region, the seven next largest cities together do not have the same population as the provincial capital.
city | Powiat | Residents June 30, 2015 |
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Białystok | circular | 295,624 |
Suwałki | circular | 69,351 |
Łomża | circular | 62,746 |
Augustów | Augustów | 30,449 |
Bielsk Podlaski | Bielsk Podlaski | 26,137 |
Zambrów | Zambrów | 22,186 |
Grajewo | Grajewo | 22,163 |
Hajnówka | Hajnówka | 21,353 |
See also: List of cities in Podlaskie Voivodeship
Rivers
- Biebrza
- Supraśl
- Western Bug (border river)
- Narew
Woods
The Polish part of the Białowieża Primeval Forest ( World Heritage Site ) and the associated national park are located in the Podlaskie Voivodeship .
economy
Compared with the GDP of the EU expressed in purchasing power standards , the province reached an index of 38.4 (EU-27 = 100) in 2006, was among the 20 regions with the lowest GDP (from 271). In 2015 the index value had risen to 49% of the EU average. The unemployment rate in December 2009 was 12.6 percent, which corresponds to 61,200 people.
With a value of 0.833, Podlaskie ranks 10th among the 16 Voivodeships of Poland in the Human Development Index .
Web links
- Podlaskie Voivodeship website (Polish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c population. Size and Structure by Territorial Division. As of June 30, 2015. Główny Urząd Statystyczny (GUS) (ZIP folder with XLS files; 7.82 MiB), accessed on May 19, 2017 .
- ↑ Eurostat press release 23/2009: Regional GDP per inhabitant in the EU27 (PDF file; 360 kB)
- ↑ Eurostat. (PDF) Retrieved April 15, 2018 .
- ↑ Central Statistics Office of Poland (CIS), Bezrobotni oraz stopa bezrobocia wg województw, grudzień 2009 , February 3, 2010 ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab. Retrieved August 12, 2018 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 16 ' N , 22 ° 56' E