Lwów Voivodship

Lwów Voivodeship Województwo lwowskie
Voivodeship of Poland
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Lwów Voivodeship (dark blue) on the map of Second Polish Republic
Capital		Lwów
Government		Voivodeship
Voivodes
•	1921–1924	Kazimierz Grabowski
•	1937–1939	Alfred Biłyk
Historical era		Interwar period
•	Established	23 December 1920
•	Annexed and divided	September 1939
•	Underground administration abolished	August 1944
Area
•	1921	27,024 km2(10,434 sq mi)
•	1939	28,402 km2(10,966 sq mi)
Population
•	1921	2,718,014
	Density	100.6 /km2  (260.5 /sq mi)
•	1931	3,126,300
Political subdivisions		27 powiats
Today part of		Ukraine, Poland

Lwów Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo lwowskie) was an administrative unit of interwar Poland (1918–1939). Because of the Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland in accordance with the secret Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, it became occupied by both the Wehrmacht and the Red Army in September 1939. Following the conquest of Poland however, the Polish underground administration existed there until August 1944. The Voivodeship was not returned to Poland after the war ended. It was split diagonally just east of Przemyśl; with its eastern half ceded to the Ukrainian SSR at the insistence of Joseph Stalin during the Tehran Conference confirmed (as not negotiable) at the Yalta Conference of 1945.

Voivodeship's capital, the biggest and its most important city was Lwów (now: Lviv in Ukraine). It consisted of 27 powiats (counties), 58 towns and 252 villages. In 1921 it was inhabited by 2,789,000 people. Ten years later, this number rose to 3,126,300 (which made it the most populous of all Polish Voivodeships). In 1931, the population density was 110 per km². The majority of the population (57%) was Polish, especially in western counties. Ukrainians (mainly in the east and south-east) made up about 33% and Jews (mainly in towns) - around 7%. Also, there were smaller communities of Armenians, Germans and other nationalities. In 1931, the illiteracy rate of the Voivodeship's population was 23.1%, about the same as national average and, at the same time, the lowest in the Polish Eastern Borderlands.

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