West Pomeranian Voivodeship

West Pomeranian Voivodeship
Województwo zachodniopomorskie
Location within Poland.
Location within Poland.
Division into counties.
Division into counties.
Coordinates (Szczecin): 53°25′N 14°35′E / 53.417°N 14.583°E / 53.417; 14.583
Country Poland
Capital Szczecin
Counties
Government
 • BodyExecutive board
 • VoivodeAdam Rudawski
 • MarshalOlgierd Geblewicz
 • EPLubusz and West Pomeranian
Area
 • Total22,892.48 km2 (8,838.84 sq mi)
Population
 (2021)
 • Total1,682,003
 • Density73/km2 (190/sq mi)
GDP
 • Total€20.994 billion
 • Per capita€12,500
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 codePL-32
PL-ZP
Vehicle registrationZ
HDI (2019)0.869[2]
very high · 11th
Primary airportSolidarity Szczecin–Goleniów Airport
Highways
Websiteszczecin.uw.gov.pl

West Pomeranian Voivodeship[a] is a voivodeship (province) in northwestern Poland. Its capital and largest city is Szczecin.[3] Its area equals 22,892.48 km2 (8,838.84 sq mi),[4] and in 2021, it was inhabited by 1,682,003 people.[5]

It was established on 1 January 1999, out of the former Szczecin and Koszalin Voivodeships and parts of Gorzów, Piła and Słupsk Voivodeships, pursuant to the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998. It borders on Pomeranian Voivodeship to the east, Greater Poland Voivodeship to the southeast, Lubusz Voivodeship to the south, the German federal-states of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania and Brandenburg to the west, and the Baltic Sea to the north.[3]

  1. ^ "EU regions by GDP, Eurostat". Retrieved 18 September 2023.
  2. ^ "Sub-national HDI - Subnational HDI - Global Data Lab". globaldatalab.org. Radboud University Nijmegen. Retrieved 2021-12-13.
  3. ^ a b Ustawa z dnia 24 lipca 1998 r. o wprowadzeniu zasadniczego trójstopniowego podziału terytorialnego państwa (Dz.U. z 1998 r. nr 96, poz. 603).
  4. ^ Powierzchnia i ludność w przekroju terytorialnym w 2014 r. (stan z 31 grudnia 2013). Warsaw: Główny Urząd Statystyczny, 2014.
  5. ^ "Baza Demografia". demografia.stat.gov.pl.


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