Warminsko-Mazurskie
Warmia i Mazury (officially, the Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodship) is an administrative region or voivodship of north-eastern Poland. The capital is Olsztyn.
It was created on 1 January 1999 out of the former Olsztyn and parts of Suwalki and Elblag voivodships as a result of Local Government Reogranization Act of 1998. The voivodship's name recalls the region's two historical lands of Warmia (German: Ermland) and Masuria (Mazury).
The territory is just south of Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast. It was once the southern part of East Prussia.
The capital of this administrative region is:
Olsztyn.
Area: 24,202 km²
Population: 1,460,900.
Administrative division
19 counties (2 city counties + 17 land counties)
- Bartoszyce County, Bartoszyce
- Braniewo County, Braniewo
- Działdowo County, Działdowo
- Elbląg County, Elbląg
- Elk County, Ełk
- Giżycko County, Giżycko
- Iława County, Iława
- Kętrzyn County, Kętrzyn
- Lidzbark County, Lidzbark Warmiński
- Mrągowo County, Mrągowo
- Nidzica County, Nidzica
- Nowe Miasto County, Nowe Miasto Lubawskie
- Olecko-Gołdap County, Olecko
- Olsztyn County, Olsztyn
- Ostróda County, Ostróda
- Pisz County, Pisz
- Szczytno County, Szczytno
Major cities and towns
(population 2003)
- Olsztyn (177,200)
- Elblag (130,800)
- Elk (57,200)
- Ostroda (35,400)
- Ilawa (34,000)
- Gizycko (31,500)
- Ketrzyn (30,100)
- Szczytno (27,000)
- Bartoszyce (26,400)
- Mragowo (23,400)
- Dzialdowo (21,100)
