Greater Pomeranian Voivodship

Pomeranian Voivodeship Województwo Pomorskie
Voivodeship of Poland
← 1919–1939 →
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Location of the Pomeranian Voivodeship (red) within the Second Polish Republic (1938).
Capital		Toruń
Government		Voivodeship
Voivodes
•	1919–1920	Stefan Łaszewski
•	1936–1939	Władysław Raczkiewicz
Historical era		Interwar period
•	Established	12 August 1919
•	Territorial changes	1 April 1938
•	Annexed by Germany	September 1939
Area
•	1921	16,386 km2(6,327 sq mi)
•	1939	28,402 km2(10,966 sq mi)
Population
•	1921	935,643
	Density	57.1 /km2  (147.9 /sq mi)
•	1931	1,884,400
Political subdivisions		28 powiats

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The Pomeranian Voivodeship or Pomorskie Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo Pomorskie) was an administrative unit of inter-war Poland (from 1919–1939). It ceased to exist in September 1939, following the German and Soviet invasion of Poland.

Most of its territory became part of current Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, of which one of two capitals is the same as the interwar voivodeship's (Toruń); the second one is Bydgoszcz.

The name Pomerania comes from Slavic po more, which means Land at the Sea.

This was a unit of administration and local government in the Republic of Poland (II Rzeczpospolita) established in 1919 after World War I from the majority of the Prussian province of West Prussia(made out of territories taken in Partitions of Poland which was returned to Poland. Toruń was the capital. In 1938–1939, the voivodeship extended to the south at the expense of Poznań Voivodeship and Warsaw Voivodeship, and was called Great Pomerania afterwards (see: Territorial changes of Polish Voivodeships on April 1, 1938).

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