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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).
The Polish województwo, designating a second-tier Polish or Polish–Lithuanian administrative unit, derives from wojewoda, (etymologically, a 'warlord', 'war leader' or 'leader of warriors', [2] but now simply the governor of a województwo) and the suffix-ztwo (a "state or condition").
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 ...
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 partitioning powers, seeing the increasing unrest in the remaining Commonwealth, decided to solve the problem by erasing any independent Polish state from the map. On 24 October 1795 their representatives signed a treaty dividing the remaining territories of the Commonwealth between their three countries. [90]
Topographic map of Poland. Geography of Poland. Poland is: a sovereign state. Member state of the European Union; Member state of NATO; Location: Northern Hemisphere and Eastern Hemisphere
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").
Values are shown in euros in the original source. All values are rounded to the nearest hundred. Except Warsaw metropolitan area, which is within Mazowieckie, all areas below are Voivodeships of Poland. Regions of Poland by GDP (2021). Map key: > €100 bil. > €50 bil. > €25 bil. > €10 bil.