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Lwow Voivodeship

Lwów Voivodeship
Województwo lwowskie
Voivodeship of Poland

1920–1939
 

 

Location of Lwów
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 Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, it ceased to exist in September 1939, following the German and Soviet conquest of Poland. The Polish underground administration however, existed until August 1944.

Its capital, biggest and 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 lingering from the century of foreign rule was 23.1%, about the same as national average and, at the same time, the lowest in the Polish Eastern Borderlands.

The Voivodeship's area was 28,402 square kilometres (10,966 sq mi). It was located in southeastern Poland, bordering Czechoslovakia to the south, Kraków Voivodeship to the west, Lublin Voivodeship to the north and Volhynian Voivodeship, Stanisławów Voivodeship and Tarnopol Voivodeship to the east. Landscape was hilly (in the north) and mountainous (in the south, along the Czechoslovakian border, with numerous spas located there, such as Slawsko). Forest covered 23.3% of the Voivodeship area (January 1, 1937 statistics; with the national average of 22.2%).


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