Podlaskie Voivodeship
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Podlaskie Voivodeship Polish: Województwo podlaskie |
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| Coordinates (Białystok): 53°7′N 23°10′E / 53.117°N 23.167°ECoordinates: 53°7′N 23°10′E / 53.117°N 23.167°E | |||||
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 Poland
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| Capital | Białystok | ||||
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| • Type | Voivodeship | ||||
| • Body | Podlaskie Regional Assembly | ||||
| • Voivode | Maciej Żywno | ||||
| • Marshal | Jarosław Dworzański | ||||
| • President | Bogdan Dyjuk (PSL) | ||||
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| • Total | 20,180 km2 (7,790 sq mi) | ||||
| Population (30-06-2014) | |||||
| • Total | 1,193,348 | ||||
| • Density | 59/km2 (150/sq mi) | ||||
| • Urban | 712,675 | ||||
| • Rural | 484,935 | ||||
| Car plates | B | ||||
| Website | bialystok.uw.gov.pl | ||||
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Podlaskie Voivodeship or Podlasie Province (Polish: Województwo podlaskie, [vɔjɛˈvut͡stfɔ pɔdˈlaskʲɛ]) is a voivodeship (province) in northeastern Poland. It borders on Masovian Voivodeship to the west, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship to the northwest, Lublin Voivodeship to the south, the Belarusian Voblasts of Grodno and Brest to the east, the Lithuanian Counties of Alytus and Marijampolė to the northeast, and the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia to the north.
The capital of Podlasie Province is Białystok. The province was created on 1 January 1999, pursuant to the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998, from the former Białystok and Łomża Voivodeships and the eastern half of the former Suwałki Voivodeship
The voivodeship takes its name from the historic region of Poland called Podlasie.
There are two opinions regarding the origin of the region's name. People often derive it from the Slavic les or las, meaning "forest", i.e., it is an area "by the wood(s)" or an "area of forests", which would bring Podlasie close in meaning to adjacent Polesia. This theory has been questioned, as it does not properly take into consideration the vowel shifts "a" > "e" > "i" in various Slavic languages (in fact, it mixes vowels form different languages). Heavily wooded Podlasie is home to the primal Białowieża Forest and National Park, habitat of the European wisent bison and tarpan.
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