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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)
Similarly, the area around Radom, which historically is part of Lesser Poland, is located in the Masovian Voivodeship. Also, the Pomeranian Voivodeship includes only the eastern extreme of historical Pomerania, as the western part is in Germany and the eastern border has shifted again and again. Division of Poland into voivodeships and powiats ...
Administrative division of Poland (from Commission on Standardization of Geographical Names Outside Poland website, in English) Archived 2006-09-25 at the Wayback Machine; Official map by Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography Archived 2007-03-11 at archive.today; Regions of Poland Archived 2010-07-26 at the Wayback Machine
العربية; Azərbaycanca; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Cymraeg; Deutsch; Ελληνικά; Español; Esperanto; Euskara
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").
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 regained its independence in 1918 after World War I but lost it again in World War II, occupied by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Poland lost over six million citizens in World War II, and emerged several years later as a socialist republic within the Eastern Bloc under strong Soviet influence.
ISO 3166-2:PL is the entry for Poland in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1. Currently for Poland, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 16 ...