Podlaskie Voivodeship
Podlaskie Voivodeship
Województwo podlaskie | |
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Location within Poland | |
Division into counties | |
| Coordinates (Białystok): 53°7′N 23°10′E / 53.117°N 23.167°E | |
| Country | Poland |
| Established | 1999 |
| Capital | Białystok |
| Counties | |
| Government | |
| • Body | Executive board |
| • Voivode | Jacek Brzozowski (PO) |
| • Marshal | Łukasz Prokorym (PO) |
| • EP | Podlaskie and Warmian-Masurian |
| Area | |
• Total | 20,180 km2 (7,790 sq mi) |
| Population (2019) | |
• Total | 1,179,430 |
| • Density | 58.45/km2 (151.4/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 717,418 |
| • Rural | 462,012 |
| GDP | |
| • Total | €16.827 billion (2023) |
| • Per capita | €15,500 (2023) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| ISO 3166 code | PL-20 |
| Vehicle registration | B |
| HDI (2019) | 0.873 very high · 8th |
| Highways | |
| Website | bialystok.uw.gov.pl |
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Podlaskie Voivodeship (Polish: województwo podlaskie [vɔjɛˈvut͡stfɔ pɔˈdlaskʲɛ] ⓘ) is a voivodeship in northeastern Poland. The name of the voivodeship refers to the historical region of Podlachia (in Polish, Podlasie), and significant part of its territory corresponds to that region. The capital and largest city is Białystok.
It borders the Masovian Voivodeship to the west, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship to the northwest, Lublin Voivodeship to the south, Belarus to the east, and Lithuania to the northeast.
The voivodeship was created on 1 January 1999, pursuant to the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998, from the former Białystok and Łomża Voivodeships and the eastern half of the former Suwałki Voivodeship.