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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.
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").
Tychy is the largest of the so-called "new towns" in Poland and was built from 1950 to 1985, to allow for urban expansion in the southeast of the Upper Silesian industrial region. In the 1950s the neighbourhood Osiedle A was built, designed by Tadeusz Teodorowicz-Todorowski, and the design and planning of the next neighbourhoods was entrusted ...
Major cities normally have the status of both gmina and powiat. Poland currently has 16 voivodeships, 380 powiats (including 66 cities with powiat status), and 2,478 gminas. [1] The current system was introduced pursuant to a series of acts passed by the Polish parliament in 1998, and came into effect on 1 January 1999.
(Transborder regions = *) Northern & Western Poland. Central European Plain* (Nizina Środkowoeuropejska) Silesia* Pomerania* Southern Poland. Bohemian Massif* (Masyw Czeski) Polish Highlands (Wyżyny Polskie) Sandomierz Basin (Kotlina Sandomierska) Subcarpathia* Western Subcarpathia * (Podkarpacie Zachodnie)
Silesia [a] (see names below) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany. Its area is approximately 40,000 km 2 (15,400 sq mi), and the population is estimated at 8,000,000. Silesia is split into two main subregions, Lower Silesia in the west and Upper Silesia in ...
In the meanwhile, Poland abolished counties completely and introduced a new, two-tier administrative division, with 49 smaller voivodeships and gminas. [7] Ostensibly the reforms of 1973 and 1975 were made in order to guide Poland through an accelerated period of growth, however, the real intent seemed to be the fear of what the government in ...
This article lists the NUTS-2 regions and metropolitan areas of Poland by their nominal GDP in euros. All values are rounded to the nearest million in case of GDP data and to the nearest whole number in case of GDP per capita data. NUTS-2 regions of Poland by GDP (2023) Map key: > €100,000 mil. > €50,000 mil. > €25,000 mil. > €10,000 mil.