Podlaskie Voivodeship
Podlaskie Voivodeship or Podlasie Province (Polish: Województwo podlaskie [vɔjɛˈvut͡stfɔ pɔˈdlaskʲɛ] ⓘ) is a voivodeship (province) in northeastern Poland. The name of the province refers to the historical region of Podlachia, and part of its territory corresponds to this region. The capital and largest city is Białystok.
Podlaskie Voivodeship
Województwo podlaskie | |
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Location within Poland | |
Division into counties | |
| Coordinates (Białystok): 53°7′N 23°10′E | |
| Country | Poland |
| Capital | Białystok |
| Counties | |
| Government | |
| • Body | Executive board |
| • Voivode | Jacek Brzozowski (PO) |
| • Marshal | Artur Kosicki (PiS) |
| • EP | Podlaskie and Warmian-Masurian |
| Area | |
| • Total | 20,180 km2 (7,790 sq mi) |
| Population (2019) | |
| • Total | 1,179,430 |
| • Density | 58/km2 (150/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 717,418 |
| • Rural | 462,012 |
| GDP | |
| • Total | €12.722 billion |
| • Per capita | €11,000 |
| ISO 3166 code | PL-20 |
| Vehicle registration | B |
| HDI (2019) | 0.873 very high · 8th |
| Website | bialystok.uw.gov.pl |
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It borders on Masovian Voivodeship to the west, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship to the northwest, Lublin Voivodeship to the south, the Belarusian oblasts of Grodno and Brest to the east, the Lithuanian Counties of Alytus and Marijampolė to the northeast, and the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia to the north.
The province was created on 1 January 1999, pursuant to the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998, from the former Białystok and Łomża Voivodeships and the eastern half of the former Suwałki Voivodeship.