Kraków Voivodeship (1919–39)

Kraków Voivodeship Województwo krakowskie
Voivodeship of Poland
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Location of the Kraków Voivodeship (red) within the Second Polish Republic, 1938.
Capital		Kraków
Government		Voivodeship
Voivode
•	1921–1923	Kazimierz Junosza-Gałecki
•	1937–1939	Józef Tymiński
History
•	Established	23 December 1920
•	Annexed by Germany	September 1939
Area
•	1921	17,448 km2(6,737 sq mi)
•	1939	17,560 km2(6,780 sq mi)
Population
•	1921	1,992,810
	Density	114.2 /km2  (295.8 /sq mi)
•	1931	2,300,100
Political subdivisions		18 powiats

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Kraków Voivodeship (Polish: województwo krakowskie) - a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1919–1939. Back then, it covered a big chunk of southern part of the country, including such cities as Kraków, Jaworzno and Tarnów. Capital city: Kraków.

In early 1939, Voivodeship's area was 17 560 square kilometers. It was located in southern Poland, bordering Autonomous Silesian Voivodeship to the west, Kielce Voivodeship to the north, Lublin Voivodeship, Lwów Voivodeship to the east and Slovakia to the south. Landscape was hilly in the northern part and mountainous in south, with the Tatra Mountains located in the very south of the area. Forests covered 20.9%, with the national average 22.2% (as for January 1, 1937).

According to the 1931 Polish census, the population was 2 300 100, with approximately 25% living in towns and cities. Poles were 91.3% of the population, Jews - 5.6% and Ukrainians - 2.5%. The Jews preferred to live in the cities and towns; in 1931 they made 19.2% of Voivodeship's city inhabitants. Illiteracy (in 1931) was 13.7%, lower than the national average of 23.1%. In early 1939, population density of the province was 130 people per sq. kilometer, which was much higher than Poland's average of 83.

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