Administrative reform in Poland (1975)

The administrative reform of 1975 in Poland (Polish: Reforma administracyjna Polski w 1975 roku) was a major administrative reform in the Polish People's Republic which began in 1973 and completed in 1975.^[1] The Act of May 28, 1975 introduced a two-level administrative division in Poland. The reform was the final stage of subsequent administrative changes that had taken place since the liquidation of communes and the introduction of communes in their place at the end of 1954.^[2] The gradual elimination of population-, economically, infrastructurally and developmentally weak communities began in the late 1950s and continued in stages throughout the 1960s. In the early 1970s, much larger and significantly reduced in number clusters increasingly resembled communes, which were finally reactivated on January 1, 1973^[3] (e.g. the list of clusters of Gostyń and Włodawa counties on January 1, 1971, was the same as the list of communes on January 1, 1973^[4]), simultaneously liquidating clusters and housing estates. In total, instead of 4,315 municipalities, 2,366 much larger communes were created on January 1, 1973. This number was reduced in subsequent years to 2,129 (2 July 1976).^[5]