Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Eastern Poland. Ukrainian Highlands * (Wyżyny Ukraińskie) East Baltic-Belarusian Lowlands * (Niż Wschodniobałtycko-Białoruski) Historical lands of Poland against the background of modern administrative borders (names in Polish)
A voivodeship (/ ˈ v ɔɪ v oʊ d ʃ ɪ p / VOY-vohd-ship; Polish: województwo [vɔjɛˈvut͡stfɔ] ⓘ; plural: województwa [vɔjɛˈvut͡stfa]) is the highest-level administrative division of Poland, corresponding to a province in many other countries.
العربية; Azərbaycanca; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Cymraeg; Deutsch; Ελληνικά; Español; Esperanto; Euskara
All municipalities in Poland are governed regardless of their type under the mandatory mayor–council government system. Executive power in a rural gmina is exercised by a wójt, while the homologue in municipalities containing cities or towns is called accordingly either a city mayor (prezydent miasta) or a town mayor (burmistrz), all of them elected by a two-round direct election, while the ...
The administrative division of Poland since 1999 has been based on three levels of subdivision. The territory of Poland is divided into voivodeships (provinces); these are further divided into powiats (counties or districts), and these in turn are divided into gminas (communes or municipalities). Major cities normally have the status of both ...
Largest city of the entire region is Cottbus (Polish: Chociebuż, Lower Sorbian: Chóśebuz). The region was either wholly or partially ruled by Polish states in the past. It was also under Czech, German and Hungarian rule at various times. Lower Lusatia (Polish: Łużyce Dolne), eastern part is located in Poland, remainder in Germany.
Poland, [d] officially the Republic of Poland, [e] is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia [ f ] to the northeast, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west.
Poland–Vietnam relations are the current and historical relations between Poland and Vietnam.Poland has an embassy in Hanoi and Vietnam has an embassy in Warsaw.. The relationship between these two nations can be described as special because they both share historical parallels, although they are also culturally different from one another and geographically very far apart.