Lublin Voivodeship

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Basic data
Capital : Lublin     
Voivode : Lech Sprawka
Voivodeship Marshal : Jarosław Stawiarski
Biggest town: Lublin
ISO 3166-2 : PL-06
License Plate L.
Residents : 2,185,000 (March 31, 2011)
Population density : 87 inhabitants per km²
geography
Area : 25,114 km²
- of which country:
- of which water:
Expansion: North-South: 132–212 km
West-East: 105–160 km
The highest point: 388.7 m
Deepest point:
Landscape structure
Forests: 22.7%
Waters:
Agriculture: 59.2%
Other:
Administrative division
Independent cities : 4th
Powiaty (counties): 20th
- Municipalities : 213
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The Lublin Voivodeship ( Polish województwo lubelskie ) is one of the 16 voivodeships that make up the Republic of Poland . It is located in the eastern part of Poland and is enclosed by the Podlaskie , Mazovia , Heiligkreuz and Subcarpathian Voivodeships (from north to south). In the east, the Lublin Voivodeship, which emerged from the Lublin , Chełm , Zamość , Biała Podlaska and parts of Tarnobrzeg and Siedlce voivodeships in 1999 , borders on Belarus and the Ukraine . The capital is the eponymous Lublin .

coat of arms

Description : In red a jumping silver stag with a golden crown over the neck.

Administrative division

The Lublin Voivodeship is divided into 20 administrative districts and four urban districts. In addition to the voivodeship capital Lublin, three other cities have powiat status. They themselves do not belong to the districts of the same name (rural powiats).

Cities with powiat status

  1. Lublin (339,770)
  2. Zamość (63,511)
  3. Chełm (62,331)
  4. Biała Podlaska (57,264)

Powiaty (counties)

  1. Biała Podlaska (111,078)
  2. Biłgoraj (101,152)
  3. Chełm (78,074)
  4. Hrubieszów (63,320)
  5. Janów Lubelski (45,845)
  6. Krasnystaw (63,554)
  7. Kraśnik (95,618)
  8. Lubartów (88,591)
  9. Lublin (154,760)
  10. Łęczna (57,372)
  2. Łuków (107,144)
  3. Opole Lubelskie (59,511)
  4. Parczew (34,809)
  5. Puławy (113,441)
  6. Radzyń Podlaski (59,057)
  7. Ryki (55,919)
  8. Świdnik (71,897)
  9. Tomaszów Lubelski (83,148)
  10. Włodawa (38,524)
  11. Zamość (106,526)

(Residents on June 30, 2019)

geography

Biggest cities

city Powiat Residents
June 30, 2019
POL Lublin COA.svg Lublin circular 339.770
POL Zamość COA.svg Zamość circular 63,511
POL Chełm COA.svg Chełm circular 62,331
POL Biała Podlaska COA.svg Biała Podlaska circular 57,264
Puławy herb.svg Puławy Puławy 47,634
POL Świdnik COA.svg Świdnik Świdnik 39,217
POL Kraśnik COA.svg Kraśnik Kraśnik 34,355
POL Łuków COA (1920-2018) .svg Łuków Łuków 29,885
POL Biłgoraj COA.svg Biłgoraj Biłgoraj 26,309
POL Lubartów COA.svg Lubartów Lubartów 21,948
POL Tomaszów Lubelski COA.svg Tomaszów Lubelski Tomaszów Lubelski 19,050
POL Łęczna COA.svg Łęczna Łęczna 18,884

Rivers

The western boundary is the Vistula , the eastern boundary is the Bug . The Wieprz lies entirely within the province of Lublin.

National parks

The Polesie National Park, founded in 1990, is not far from the rural community of Gmina Urszulin in the powiat Włodawski and covers 97.62 square kilometers.

The Roztocze National Park has been located on the southern border of the voivodeship since 1974, with an area of ​​84.83 km² .

economy

The Lublin Voivodeship is one of the poorest regions in the EU . When compared with the EU GDP in terms of purchasing power standards , the voivodeship achieved an index of 47 in 2015 (EU-27 = 100). The unemployment rate in March 2019 was 8 percent, which corresponds to exactly 75,134 people. This is 2.1 percent more than the national average. 

With a value of 0.834, Lublin ranks 8th among the 16 Voivodeships of Poland in the Human Development Index .

Extermination camp

In the area of ​​the Lublin Voivodeship there are three former extermination camps in German-occupied Poland ( Generalgouvernement ):

Majdanek , Belzec , Sobibor and the former Izbica ghetto .

Web links

Commons : Lublin Voivodeship  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Lublin (Voivodeship)  - tourist guide

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New voivode appointed. Retrieved February 15, 2017 (Polish).
  2. ^ Result of the 2011 census, Główny Urząd Statystyczny: Wyniki Narodowego Spisu Powszechnego Ludności i Mieszkań 2011. Warsaw, March 2012. Online ( Memento from January 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
  3. ↑ Krągły Goraj. Retrieved February 6, 2020 .
  4. ↑ population. Size and Structure by Territorial Division. As of June 30, 2019. Główny Urząd Statystyczny (GUS) (PDF files; 0.99 MiB), accessed December 24, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Eurostat. Retrieved April 15, 2018 .
  6. ↑ EURES European Job Mobility Portal ( Memento of April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ^ Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab. Retrieved August 12, 2018 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 '  N , 22 ° 54'  E