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Masovian Voivodeship
województwo mazowieckie-Warsaw
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Coat of Arms
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Masovian Voivodeship within Poland
Geographical characteristics
Area 35,579 km²
Land km²
Water km²
Population
Total (2003) 5,136,000
Density 144.3/km²
Administrative division
Image:Mazowsze Warszawa.png
Powiats
Urban powiats 4
Rural powiats 38
Communes 314
Marshal of the voivodship Adam Struzik
Voivode Leszek Mizieliński

Masovian Voivodeship (Polish: województwo mazowieckie) is the largest and most populous of the sixteen Polish administrative regions or voivodeships created in 1999. It covers an area of 35,598 km² in eastern-central Poland and has nearly 5.1 million inhabitants. Its principal cities are Warsaw (population 1.6 million) in the center, Radom (227,309) in the south, Płock (130,000) in the west, Siedlce (75,000) in the east, and Ostrołęka (55,000) in the north.

The Voivodeship was created January 1, 1999, out of the former Warsaw, Płock, Ciechanów, Ostrołęka, Siedlce and Radom Voivodeships, pursuant to the Local Government Reorganization Act of 1998. The voivodeship's name recalls the traditional name of the region, Masovia, with which it is roughly coterminous.

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[edit] Masovia Voivodeship counties

Masovia Voivodeship is divided into 42 counties (powiat): 4 city counties (miasto na prawach powiatu) and 38 land counties (powiat ziemski), comprising 325 communes (gmina), which include 85 urban communes or cities.

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  1. Warsaw
  2. Ostrołęka and Ostrołęka County
  3. Płock County and Płock City County
  4. Radom County and Radom City County
  5. Siedlce and Siedlce City County
  6. Żuromin
  7. Mława
  8. Przasnysz
  9. Ciechanów
  10. Sierpc
  11. Maków Mazowiecki
  12. Ostrów Mazowiecka
  13. Płońsk
  14. Pułtusk
  15. Wyszków
  16. Gostynin
  17. Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki
  18. Legionowo
  19. Wołomin
  1. Węgrów
  2. Sokołów
  3. Sochaczew
  4. Warszawa Zachód
  5. Mińsk Mazowiecki
  6. Łosice
  7. Żyrardów
  8. Grodzisk Mazowiecki
  9. Pruszków
  10. Piaseczno
  11. Otwock County
  12. Grójec
  13. Garwolin County
  14. Białobrzegi
  15. Kozienice
  16. Przysucha County
  17. Zwoleń
  18. Szydłowiec
  19. Lipsko

[edit] Polish names and County Capitals

[edit] Major cities and towns

Warsaw after dark.
John Paul II Avenue.

(population in 2003):

[edit] Most popular surnames in the region

  1. Kowalski : 26,270
  2. Wiśniewski : 21,940
  3. Kowalczyk : 21,586

[edit] Masovian Voivodeship (1526-1795)

Masovia Voivodeship, 1526-1795 (Polish: Województwo Mazowieckie) was an administrative region of the Kingdom of Poland, and of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, from the 15th century to the partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1795). Together with Płock and Rawa Voivodeships, it formed the province of Masovia.

[edit] Municipal government

Seat of the Voivodeship Governor (Wojewoda):

[edit] Administrative division

[edit] Voivods


 
Mazowsze Voivodship counties 		Image:POL województwo mazowieckie COA.svg
City counties: Warsaw | Ostrołęka | Płock | Radom | Siedlce
Land counties: Białobrzegi | Ciechanów | Garwolin | Gostynin | Grodzisk Mazowiecki | Grójec | Kozienice | Legionowo | Lipsko | Łosice | Maków | Mińsk | Mława | Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki | Ostrołęka | Ostrów Mazowiecka | Otwock | Piaseczno | Płock | Płońsk | Pruszków | Przasnysz | Przysucha | Pułtusk | Radom | Siedlce | Sierpc | Sochaczew | Sokołów | Szydłowiec | Warsaw West | Węgrów | Wołomin | Wyszków | Zwoleń | Żuromin | Żyrardów


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Voivodeships of Poland

Greater Poland • Kuyavian-Pomeranian • Lesser Poland • Lower Silesian • Lublin • Lubusz • Łódź • Masovian • Opole • Podlachian • Pomeranian • Silesian • Subcarpathian • Świętokrzyskie • Warmian-Masurian • West Pomeranian

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