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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 ...
The following is an alphabetical list of all 380 county-level entities in Poland.. A county or powiat (pronounced povyat, /pɔv.jät/) is the second level of Polish administrative division, between the voivodeship (provinces) and the gmina (municipalities or communes; plural "gminy").
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.
Map of Poland. This is a list of cities and towns in Poland, consisting of four sections: the full list of all 107 cities in Poland by size, followed by a description of the principal metropolitan areas of the country, the table of the most populated cities and towns in Poland, and finally, the full alphabetical list of all 107 Polish cities and 861 towns combined.
Polish regions are regions that are in present-day Poland but are not identified in its administrative division. Geophysical regions of Poland according to Jerzy ...
State flag Civil flag Voivodeship English name Polish name Design Holy Cross: Holy Cross Świętokrzyskie: Horizontal tricolor of blue, white and red with a yellow stripe along the hoist, emblazoned with the arms of the voivodeship in the white stripe Kuyavia-Pomerania: Kuyavia-Pomerania Kujawsko-Pomorskie: Horizontal tricolor of red, white and ...
Poland is divided into 16 provinces or states known as voivodeships. [207] As of 2022, the voivodeships are subdivided into 380 counties , which are further fragmented into 2,477 municipalities . [207] Major cities normally have the status of both gmina and powiat. [207]
In most cases, this is the adjective formed from the name of the town or city where the county has its seat. Thus the county with its seat at the town of Kutno is named powiat kutnowski (Kutno County). (In modern Polish both parts of the name are written in lower case; however, names of powiats in the Grand Duchy of Poznań were written in ...