3. Lesser Poland Voivodeship

In this post we will go to the south of Poland, more to the east

And now I will write like this:

English word (PL: Polish translation)

PL - Polish or Poland, in short

I hope this is understandable

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3. LESSER POLAND

Lesser Poland Voivodeship or Lesser Poland Province (PL: Województwo Małopolskie, also known as Małopolska) - is a voivodeship (province), in southern Poland. It has an area of 15,108 square kilometers (5,833 sq mi), and a population of 3,267,731 (2006).

It was created on January 1, 1999 out of the former Cracow (PL: Kraków), Tarnow (PL: Tarnów), Nowy Sacz (PL: Nowy Sącz) and parts of Bielsko-Biala (PL: Bielsko-Biała), Katowice, Kielce and Krosno Voivodeships, pursuant to the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998. The province's name recalls the traditional name of a historic Polish region, Lesser Poland, or (in Polish: Małopolska), Current Lesser Poland Voivodeship, however, covers only a small part of the broader ancient Małopolska region which, together with Greater Poland (Wielkopolska) and Silesian (Śląsk), formed the early medieval Polish state. Historic Lesser Poland is much larger than the current province. It stretches far north, to Radom, and Siedlce, also including such cities, as Stalowa Wola, Lublin, Kielce, Czestochowa (PL: Częstochowa) and Sosnowiec.

The province is bounded on the north by the Holy Cross Mountain (Góry Świętokrzyskie), on the west by Jura Krakowsko-Częstochowska (a broad range of hills stretching from Cracow to Częstochowa), and on the south by the Tatra, Pieniny and Beskidy Mountains. Politically it is bordered by Silesian Voivodeship to the west, Holy Cross Voivodeship to the north, Subcarpatian Voivodeship to the east, and Slovakia (Prešov Region and Žilina Regions) to the south.

Almost all of Lesser Poland lies in the Vistula River (PL: Rzeka Wisła) catchment area. The city of Cracow was one of the European Cities of Culture in 2000. Cracow has railway and road connections with Katowice (expressway), Warsaw, Wroclaw and Rzeszów. It liest at the crossroads of major international routes linking Dresden with Kiev, and Gdansk with Budapest. Located here is the second largest inernational airport in Poland (after Warsaw's), the Jan Paweł II International Airport.

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ECONOMY

The Gross domestic product (GDP. In Polish PKB) of the province was 40.4 billion € in 2018, accounting for 8.1% of the Polish economic output. GDP per capita adjusted for purchasing power was 19,700 € or 65% of the EU27 average in the same year. The GDP per employee was 72% of the EU average.

The region's economy includes high technology, banking, chemical and metallurgical industries, coal, ore, food processing, and spirit and tobacco industries. The most industrialized city of the voivodeship is Cracow. The largest regional enterprise operates here, the Tadeusz Sendzimir Steelworks (PL: Huta Tadeusza Sendzimira) in Nowa Huta, employing 17,500 people. Another major industrial center is located in the west, in the neighborhood of Chrzanow (PL: Chrzanów) (chiefly the production of railway engines) and Oswiecim (PL: Oświęcim) (chemical works). Cracow Technological Park (PL: Krakowski Park Technologiczny), a Special Economic Zone, has been established within the voivodeship. There are almost 210,000 registered economic entities operating in the voivodeship, mostly small and medium-sized, of which 234 belong to the state-owned sector. Foreign investment, growing in the region, reached approximately US$18.3 billion by the end of 2006.

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UNIVERSITIES

130,000 students attend fifteen Cracow institutions of higher learning. The Jagiellonian University (PL: Uniwersytet Jagieloński), the largest university in the city (44,200 students), was founded in 1364 as Cracow Academy. Mikołaj Kopernik and Karol Wojtyła (Pope Jan Paweł II) graduated from it. The AGH University of Science and Technology (29,800 students) is considered to be the best technical university in Poland. The Academy of Economics, the Pedagogical University, the Cracow University of Technology and the Agricultural Academy are also very highly regarded. There are also the Fine Arts Academy, the State Theatre University and the Musical Academy. Nowy Sącz has become a major educational center in the region thanks to its Higher School of Business and Administration, with an American curriculum, founded in 1992. The school has 4,500 students. There are also two private higher schools in Tarnów.

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CLIMATE

Located in Southern Poland, Lesser Poland is the warmest place in Poland with average summer temperatures between 23 °C (73 °F) and 30 °C (86 °F) during the day, often reaching 32 °C (90 °F) to 38 °C (100 °F) in July and August, the two warmest months of the year. The city Tarnów, which is located in Lesser Poland, is the hottest place in Poland all year round, average temperatures being around 25 °C (77 °F) during the day in the three summer months and 3 °C (37 °F) during the day in the three winter months. In the winter the weather patterns alter each year; usually winters are mildly cold with temperatures ranging from −7 °C (19 °F) to 4 °C (39 °F), but the winter season changes often to a more humid and warmer winter, or more continental and cold, depending on the many various wind patterns that affect Poland from different regions of the world. Błędów Desert (PL: Pustynia Błędowska), the only desert in Poland, is located in Lesser Poland, where temperatures can often reach 38 °C (100 °F) in the summer.

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TOURISM

Four national parks and numerous reserves have been established in the voivodeship to protect the environment of Lesser Poland. The region has areas for tourism and recreation, including Zakopane (Poland's most popular winter resort) and the Tatra, Pieniny and Beskidy Mountains. The natural landscape features many historic sites. The salt mine at Wieliczka, the pilgrimage town of Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, and Cracow's Old Town are ranked by UNESCO among the most precious sites of world heritage. At Wadowice, birthplace of Jan Paweł II (50 kilometers southwest of Cracow) is a museum dedicated to the late Pope's childhood. The area of Oświęcim, with the former Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz-I and Auschwitz-II-Birkenau, is visited annually by a million people. Another tourist destination is the town of Bochnia with its salt mine, Europe's oldest.

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CITIES AND TOWNS

The voivodeship contains 61 cities and towns. These are listed below in descending order of population (according to official figures for 2006)

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ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION

Smaller Poland Voivodeship is divided into 22 counties (PL: Powiaty): 3 city counties and 19 land counties. These are further divided into 182 gminas.

The counties are listed in the following table (ordering within categories is by decreasing population).

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PROTECTED AREAS

Protected areas in Lesser Poland Voivodeship include six National Parks and 11 Landscape Parks. These are listed below:

• Babia Gora National Park (PL: Babia Góra, or Babigórski Park Narodowy) - a UNESCO-designated biosphere reserve
• Gorce National Park
• Magura National Park - partly in Subcarpatian Voivodeship
• Ojcow National Park (PL: Ojców, or Ojcowski Park Narodowy)
• Pieniny National Park
• Tatra National Park - part of a UNESCO biosphere reserve shared with Slovakia
• Bielany-Tyniec Landscape Park
• Ciezkowice-Roznow Landscape Park (PL: Ciężkowice-Rożnów, or Ciężkowicko-Rożnowski Park Krajobrazowy)
• Dlubina Landscape Park (PL: Dłubnia, or Dłubniański Park Krajobrazowy)
• Eagle Nests Landscape Park - partly in Silesian Voivodeship
• Cracow Valleys Landscape Park
• Little Beskids Landscape Park - partly in Silesian Voivodeship
• Pasmo Brzanki Landscape Park - partly in Subcarpatian Voivodeship
• Poprad Landscape Park
• Rudno Landscape Park
• Tenczynek Landscape Park
• Wisnicz-Lipnica Landscape Park (PL: Wiśnicz-Lipnica, or Wiśnicko-Lipnicki Park Krajobrazowy)

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SYMBOLS

Lesser Poland Voivodeship's symbols can be blazoned as follows:

1. Coat of arms: A traditional Iberian shield gules, an eagle argent displayed armed, legged, beaked, langued and crowned Or
2. Flag: Per fess argent and gules, a narrow fess Or

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MOST POPULAR SURNAMES IN THE REGION

1. Nowak - 23,671
2. Wojcik (PL: Wójcik) - 13,347
3. Zajac (PL: Zając) - 10,206

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

The Lesser Poland Voivodeship has partnerships with the following regions:

• Thuringia (Germany)
• Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (France) 
• Prešov Region (Slovakia)
• Žilina Region (Slovakia)
• Lviv Oblast (Ukraine)
• Cluj County (Romania)
• Sverdlovsk Oblast (Russia
• Latgale (Latvia)
• Jiangsu (China)
• Andhra Pradesh (India)
• Uppsaia County (Sweden)
• Kurdistan Region (Iraq)
• Istria County (Croatia)
• Adjara (Georgia)

In February 2020, the French region of Centre-Val de Loire suspended its partnership with the Lesser Poland Voivodeship as a response to the anti-LGBT resolution passed by the voivodeship's authorities.

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More information and photos here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_Poland

or

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_Poland_Voivodeship

This week (June 8-14) I will add about 5 entries, or at least I have such plans. Because from June 15 I go to practice professional

CREDITS TO ARTIST for authors of photos and articles from Wikipedia

2. Greater Poland Voivodeship

I admit... I live in this voivodeship of Poland! But I can't tell where exactly, let it remain a mystery

So let's move to rather west Poland in this post

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2. GREATER POLAND

Greater Poland Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo Wielkopolskie), also known as Wielkopolska Voivodeship, Wielkopolska Province, or Greater Poland Province - is a voivodeship, or province, in west-central Poland. It was created on January 1, 1999 out of the former Poznan, Kalisz, Konin, Pila (Polish: Piła) and Leszno Voivodeships, pursuant to the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998. The province is named after the region called Greater Poland or Wielkopolska. The modern province includes most of this historic region, except for some western parts.

Greater Poland Voivodeship is second in area and third in population among Poland's sixteen voivodeships, with an area of 29,826 square kilometres (11,516 sq mi) and a population of close to 3.5 million. Its capital city is Poznan; other important cities include Kalisz, Konin, Piła, Ostrow Greater Poland (Polish: Ostrów Wielkopolski), Gniezno (an early capital of Poland) and Leszno. It is bordered by seven other voivodeships: West-Pomeranian to the northwest, Pomeranian to the north, Kuyavian-Pomeranian to the north-east, Lodzkie (Polish: Łódzkie) to the south-east, Opole to the south, Lower Silesian to the southwest and Lubusz to the west.

The city of Poznan has international twinning arrangements with the English county of Nottinghamshire.

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NAME OF THE REGION

Because Greater Poland was the settlement area of the Polans and the core of the early Polish state, the region was at times simply called "Poland" (Latin Poland). The more specific name is first recorded in the Latin from Polonia Maior in 1257, (and in Polish "w Wielkiej Polszcze") in 1449. Its original meaning was the Older Poland, at opposed to Lesser Poland (Polish: Małopolska, Polonia Łacińska Mniejsza), a region in south-eastern Poland with its capital at Cracow which became the main center of the state later.

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HISTORY

Greater Poland formed the heart of the 10th-century early Polish state, sometimes being called the "cradle of Poland". Poznan and Gniezno were early centres of royal power, but following devastation of the region by pagan rebellion in the 1030s, and the invasion of Bretislaus I of Bohemia in 1038, the capital was moved by Casimir I the Restorer (Polish: Kazimierz I Odnowiciel) from Gniezno to Cracow.

In the Testament of Boleslaw III Wrymouth (Polish: Bolesław III Krzywousty), which initiated the period of fragmentation of Poland (1138-1320), the western part of Greater Poland (including Poznan) was granted to Mieszko III the Old (Polish: Mieszko III Stary). The eastern part, with Gniezno and Kalisz, was part of the Duchy of Cracow, granted to Wladyslaw II (Polish: Władysław II). However, for most ot the period the two parts were under a single ruler, and were known as the Duchy of Greater Poland (although at times there were separately ruled duchies of Poznan, Gniezno, Kalisz and Ujscie (Polish: Ujście). The region came under the control of Wladyslaw I Elbow-high (Polish: Władysław I Łokietek) in 1314, and thus became part of the reunited Poland of which Władysław was crowned king in 1320.

In the reunited kingdom, and later in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the country came to be divided into administrative units called voivodeships. In the case of Greater Poland region these were Poznan Voivodeship and Kalisz Voivodeship. The Commonwealth also that larger subdivisions known as province (Polish: Prowincja) covered a larger area than the Greater Poland region itself, also taking in Mazovia and Royal Prussia. This division of Crown Poland into two entities called Lesser and Greater Poland had its roots in the Statutes of Casimir the Great of 1346-1362, where the laws of "Greater Poland" – the northern part of the country – were codified in the Piotrkow (Polish: Piotrków) statute, with those of "Lesser Poland" in the separate Wislica (Polish: Wiślica) statute.

Read more here → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Poland

or

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Poland_Voivodeship

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CITIES AND TOWNS

The voivodeship contains 109 cities and towns. These are listed below in descending order of population (according to official figures for 2006):

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GEOLOGY

The main mineral energy resources in Greater Poland are lignite, natural gas, oil and peat.

Brown coal deposits are currently mined in the Konin area, and form the basis for the province's power industry (the Patnow-Adams-Konin (Polish: Pątnów-Adams-Konin) coal-fired power stations account for more than 10% of the national electricity production). The region also has significant quantities of peat deposits; it is calculated that there are ca. 886 thousand hectares of land covered with an average thickness of 1.5 m of peat. An abundance of raw materials used in the production of numerous medicines was recently discovered in the muds of Blazejewo (Polish: Błażejowo), Oderbank and Mechnacz. In addition, very large deposits of brown coal have been discovered in the vicinity of Koscian (Polish: Kościan), these however are not currently being extracted and probably never will be extracted, due to the expense that would be incurred in adapting the site to build a coal mine and the need to resettle thousands of people.

Rock salt is mined intensively at a salt mine in Klodawa (Polish: Kłodawa) (this mine alone accounts for about 20% of domestic production).

Throughout the province there are significant deposits of aggregates, gypsum, ceramic materials, and lacustrine chalk. In Kościan the largest and most modern, a natural gas production site is in operation. It supplies raw material for Earth Koscian (Polish: Kościańska Ziemia), and Zielona Gora (Polish: Zielona Góra) CHP. It is estimated that at the rate local gas reserves are being exploited, the reserves in Kościan will be enough for about 20 years of operation, thus practically allowing for local independence against the effects of gas crises.

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CLIMATE

Greater Poland is influenced by oceanic air masses that affect the mildness of the climate. The farther east one travels the more distinctly continental the climate becomes. The number of days with snow can reach up to 57 days in and around the Kalisz district.

The growing season is one of the longest in Poland. On the province's southern plains this season constitutes around 228 days, while north of Gniezno and Szamotuły this gradually declines to 216 days.

Precipitation ranges from 500 to 550 mm. Despite this the region is still faced with a deficit in rainfall, particularly in the eastern part of the province (around Slupcy, Casimir Biskupi, Kleczew (Polish: Słupcy, Kazimierz Biskupi, Kleczew)) where sometimes experience only 450 mm of rainfall per year, this threatens steppization of the region. Throughout the province there is typically a prevailing westerly wind.

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TRANSPORTATION

Greater Poland is a major transport hub within Poland; a great deal of traffic from Russia and other states of the former Soviet Union passes through Poznan and Konin to reach Germany and other EU member states. To the south runs the international route from Gdansk via Poznan and Leszno to Prague and then to the south of Europe. There is also a major highway in the province, the A2 motorway, which when completed will run from the western border of Poland with Germany, through Poznan to Warsaw and then via Belarus to Moscow.

The main railway hubs located in Greater Poland are Poznan, Pila and Ostrow Greater Poland (Polish: Poznań, Piła i Ostrów Wielkopolski). PKP Intercity operate a number of trains a day between Warsaw and Berlin which provide a fast connection for the two cities also to Poznan. This route was the first in Poland, adapted for use by the European high-speed transportation system. In the near future the government expects to construct a high-speed rail line in the shape of a Y connecting Kalisz and Poznań from Łódź, Warsaw and Wroclaw.

Poznan is the port of arrival for most international travellers as it plays host to Lawica (Polish: Ławica) International Airport, which has recently seen the second-highest passenger growth rate in the country.

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ECONOMY

The Gross domestic product (GDP. In Polish PKB) of the province was 40.4 billion € in 2018, accounting for 8.1% of Polish economic output. GDP per capita adjusted for purchasing power was 19,700 € or 65% of the EU27 average in the same year. The GDP per employee was 72% of the EU average.

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POLITICS

The Greater Poland voivodeship's government is headed by the province's voivode (governor) who is appointed by the Polish Prime Minister. The voivode is then assisted in performing his duties by the voivodeship's marshal, who is the appointed speaker for the voivodeship's executive and is elected by the sejmik (provincial assembly). The current voivode of Greater Poland is Piotr Florek, whilst the present marshal is Marek Woźniak.

The Sejmik of Greater Poland consists of 39 members.

	Party	Mandates
1	Citizens' Coalition (Polish: Koalicja Obywatelska)	15
2	Law and Jusitce (Polish: Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, PiS)	14
3	Polish People's Party (Polish: Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe)	7
4	Left Together (Polish: Lewica Razem)	3
	Independent	1
	Total	39

Governors

Name	Period
Maciej Musial (Polish: Musiał)	1 January 1999 – 20 June 2000
Stanislaw Tamm (Polish: Stanisław)	20 June 2000 – 22 October 2001
Andrzej Nowakowski	22 October 2001 – 28 December 2005
Tadeusz Dziuba	28 December 2005 – 29 November 2007
Piotr Florek	29 November 2007 – ?

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ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION

Greater Poland Voivodeship is divided into 35 counties (powiats): 4 city counties and 31 land counties. These are further divided into 226 gminas.

The counties are listed in the following table (ordering within categories is by decreasing population).

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PROTECTED AREAS

• Drawno National Park (Polish: Drawiński Park Narodowy) - partly in Lubusz and West Pomeranian Voivodeships
• Greater Poland National Park (Polish: Wielkopolski Park Narodowy)
• Barycz Valley Landscape Park (Polish: Krajobrazowy Park Doliny Baryczy)
• Chlapowski Landscape Park (Polish: Chłapowski Park Krajobrazowy)
• Lednica Landscape Park
• Powidz Landscape Park
• Promno Lanscape Park
• Przemęt Landscape Park (Polish: Przemęcki Park Krajobrazowy) - partly in Lubusz Voivodeship
• Pszczew Landscape Park - partly in Lubusz Voivodeship
• Wilderness Zielonka Landscape Park (Polish: Park Krajobrazowy Puszcza Zielonka)
• Rogalin Landscape Park
• Sierakow Landscape Park (Polish: Sierakowski Park Krajobrazowy)
• Warta Landscape Park
• Zerkow-Czeszewo Landscape Park (Polish: Żerkowsko-Czeszewski Park Krajobrazowy)

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Photos and more information about the history can be found on the pages to which links can be found above. You can also enter "Greater Poland" or "Greater Poland Voivodeship" in the Internet search engine

The next voivodeship will appear in the next entry

CREDTIS TO ARTIST for photos and articles on Wikipedia

1. The first trip around Poland - regions. And getting to know the first region of Poland

In Germany there are Land (e.g. Brandenburg, Baden-Württemberg), in the USA there are the States (e.g. Washington, Arizona), in France administrative regions (e.g. Île-de-France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes).

So what is in Poland...?

Voivodeships

Below more on this subject ^^

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HOW IT STARTED?

Administrative division of Poland. The three-level administrative (territorial) division of Poland was introduced on January 1, 1999. According to it, the territory of Poland was divided into voivodships, then into poviats (including communes with the status of cities with poviat status) and communes.

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MAP OF POLAND

In Polish

In English. My photo edition

I wrote so that it would be easier for you to understand. However, if you still have a problem, here is a map with the names of Polish cities for beginners:

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1. VOIVODESHIP - MAZOVIA

Mazovia Voivodeship or Mazovia Province (Polish: województwo mazowieckie) - is the largest and most populous of the 16 Polish provinces, or voivodeship, created in 1999.

It occupies 35,579 square kilometers (13,737 sq mi) of east-central Poland, and has 5,324,500 inhabitants.

Its principal cities are Warsaw (1.749 million) in the the centre of the Warsaw metropolitan area, Radom (226,000) in the south, Plock (Polish: Płock) (127,000) in the west, Siedlce (77,000) in the east, and Ostroleka (Polish: Ostrołęka) (55,000) in the north. The capital of the voivodeship is the national capital, Warsaw.

The province was created on January 1, 1999, out of the former Warsaw, Płock, Ciechanów, Ostrołęka, Siedlce and Radom Voivodeships, pursuant to the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998. The province's name recalls the traditional name of the region, Mazowsze (sometimes rendered in English as "Mazovia"), with which it is roughly coterminous. However, southern part of the voivodeship, with Radom, historically belongs to Lesser Poland, while Lomza (Polish: Łomża) and its surroundings, even though historically part of Mazovia, now is part of Podlachian Voivodeship.

It is bordered by six other voivodeships: Warmian-Masurian to the north, Podlachian to the north-east, Lublin to the south-east, Holy Cross (Polish: Świętokrzyskie) to the south, Lodzkie (Polish: Łódź) to the south-west, and Kuyavian-Pomeranian to the north-west.

Mazovia is the centre of science, research, education, industry and infrastructure in the country. It currently has the lowest unemployment rate in Poland and is classified as a very high income province. Moreover, it is popular among holidaymakers due to the number of historical monuments and greenery; forests cover over 20% of the voivodeship's area, where pines and oaks predominate in the regional landscape. Additionally, the Kampinos National Park located within Masovia is a UNESCO-designated biosphere reserve.

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ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION

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CITIES AND TOWNS

The voivodeship contains 85 cities and towns. These are listed below in descending order of population (according to official figures for 2006)

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PROTECTED AREAS

Protected areas in Masovia Voivodeship include one National Park and nine Landscape Parks

• Kampinos National Park (a UNESCO-designated biosphere reserve)
• Bolimow (Polish: Bolimów) Landscape Park (partly in Lodzkie Voivodeship)
• Brudzen (Polish: Brudzeń) Landscape Park
• Bug Landscape Park
• Chojnow (Polish: Chojnów) Landscape Park
• Gorzno-Lidzbark (Polish: Górzno-Lidzbark) Landscape Park (partly in Kuyavian-Pomeranian and Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship)
• Gostynin-Wloclawek (Polish: Gostynin-Włocławek) Landscape Park (partly in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship)
• Kozienice Landscape Park
• Masovia Landscape Park
• Podlachian Bug Gorge Landscape Park (partly in Lublin Voivodeship)

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MOST POPULAR SURNAMES IN THE REGION

1. Kowalski: 26,270
2. Wisniewski (Polish: Wiśniewski): 21,940
3. Kowalczyk: 21,586
4. Lukasik (Polish: Łukasik): 15,562
5. Mazurkievich (Polish: Mazurkiewicz): Founding of Masovia Name

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HISTORICAL

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 until the partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Coomonwealth (1795). Together with Płock and Rawa Voivodeship, it formed the province (prowincja) of Masovia.

1816-1837

Masovia Voivodeship was one of the voivodeships of Congress Poland. It was formed from Warsaw Department, and transformed into Masovia Governorate.

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TRANSPORTATION

There are three main road routes that pass through the voivodeship:

1. Cork–Berlin–Poznan–Warsaw–Minsk–Moscow–Omsk
2. Prague–Wroclaw–Warsaw–Bialystok–Helsinki
3. Pskov–Gdansk–Warsaw–Cracow–Budapest

Currently, there are various stretches of autostrada in the area, with the A2 autostrada connecting the region, and therefore the capital city, with the rest of Europe. The autostrada passes directly through the voivodship from west to east, connecting it with Belarus and Germany. However, the A2 is yet to be built east of Warsaw to connect Poland with Belarus. The S8 expressway connects Warsaw with Bialystok in the neighboring eastern province, along with the S17 being built to connect Warsaw with Lublin.

The railroad system is based on Koleje Mazowieckie and PKP Intercity.

The main international airport in the region is Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport.

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ECONOMY

Mazovia Voivodeship is the wealthiest province in Poland. The Gross domestic product (GDP, in Poland PKB) of the province was 112.2 billion € in 2018, accounting for 22.6% of the Polish economic output. GDP per capita adjusted for purchasing power was 34,400 € or 114% of the EU27 average in the same year.

UNEMPLOYMENT

The unemployment rate stood at 4.8% in 2017 and was higher than the national and the European average.

Year	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
Unemployment rate (in %)	12.3	9.1	6.0	6.0	7.4	7.9	8.0	8.0	7.2	6.4	5.5	4.8

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In the next post another region of Poland

If you want to view photos you can search on the Internet under the heading "Mazovia" or "Mazovia Voivodeship" and on these pages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazovia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masovian_Voivodeship

CREDITS TO ARTIST when it comes to photo and Wikipedia articles

Children's Day in Poland

Children's Day, like Mother's Day, is divided into different days in all countries. Most countries celebrate this day on June 1 (including Poland, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, North Korea, Portugal, Russia, Ukraine, Vietnam, etc.) and November 20 (Canada, Finland, France, Spain, Sweden, etc.). USA Children's Day is celebrated on the second Sunday of June, in 2020 is June 14. And Germany celebrates Children's Day on September 20. And there are many other dates for Children's Day in the world, but it would take a long time to mention.

If you want to learn more - go to the Wikipedia page with Children's Day, because from there I take all the information

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Children's Day in Poland

In Poland, Children's Day is celebrated on June 1. The International Children's Day was introduced in Poland in 1952. It coincides with the beginning of meterological summer and it is usually treated as a special day, free from lessons, as it takes place near the end of the school year. Schools usually organize special activities for the pupils to celebrate the day, and during the first week of June, is a time of festivities organized in parks and entertainment centers for children.

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The most important words related to Children's Day

Day - Dzień

Children/Children's - Dzieci

Child - Dziecko

Children's Day - Dzień Dziecka

June 1 - 1 czerwca

Playground - Plac zabaw

Play - Grać/Bawić się

Fun/Play - Zabawa/Gra

Sweets - Słodycze

Candy - Cukierki

I added the words "sweets" and "candy", because who as a child didn't demand something sweet on the Children's Day 😅

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Next post at the weekend - Saturday or Sunday