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The history of Warsaw spans over 1400 years. ... as illustrated by the rapid growth of the population to 20,000 people compared to c. 4500 people a century earlier. ...
Prior to the Second World War, Warsaw hosted the world's second largest Jewish population after New York – approximately 30 percent of the city's total population in the late 1930s. [53] In 1933, 833,500 out of 1,178,914 people declared Polish as their mother tongue. [ 142 ]
The following is a timeline of the history of Warsaw in Poland. ... Population: 161,008. [7] 1862 Szkoła Główna Warszawska (school) ...
The 1950 census (3 December 1950) showed the population rise to 25,008,000, and the 1960 census (6 December 1960) placed the population of Poland at 29,776,000. [57] In 1950, Warsaw was the biggest city of the country, with population of 804,000.
The Warsaw metropolitan area (known in Polish as: aglomeracja warszawska or Miejski Obszar Funkcjonalny Warszawy) is the metropolitan area of Warsaw, the capital of Poland. The metropolitan area covers ten counties in the Masovian Voivodeship, with an area of 6,100 km 2 (2,400 sq mi) [4] [5] and a population of around 3.5 million in 2022. [6]
Warsaw-Praga county (area 43 km², pop. 176,100), Central Warsaw county (area 10 km², pop. 218,100). It was the smallest and the most densely populated county in Poland in the 1930s. Population density there was 22 415 persons per km². The biggest cities of the Voivodeship were (population according to the 1931 Polish census):
The Jewish community was the most prominent there, constituting over 88% of the inhabitants of Muranów; with the total of about 32.7% of the population of the left-bank and 14.9% of the right-bank Warsaw, or 332,938 people in total according to 1931 census. [12] Many Jews left the city during the depression. [12]
The population of Warsaw decreased sharply as a result of executions, the extermination of the city's Jews, the deaths of some 200,000 inhabitants during the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, and the deportation of the city's left-bank population following the uprising.