Uniwersytet Ziem Zachodnich

University of the Western Lands (Polish: Uniwersytet Ziem Zachodnich, UZZ, also translated as the University of the Western Area or University of the Western Territories) was an underground Polish university in occupied Poland during World War II. The faculty was composed mostly of the professors of Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań who had been expelled by the Nazis, and included 17 different units, among them the faculty of medicine and surgery. It operated primarily in Warsaw from 1940 to 1944 and had branches in Kielce, Jędrzejów, and Milanówek.

University of the Western Lands was established in October 1940 as an initiative of the Department of Education of the Polish Underground State. Among those involved in its establishment were Maksymilian Rode (), Ludwik Jaksa Bykowski, Władysław Kowalenko (), Roman Pollak () (first dean of the humanist department), and Witold Sawicki. Other notable faculty included Józef Rafacz () (first dean of the law department), Roman Rybarski, Władysław Kowalski (dean of the theology department), Bronisław Koskowski () (dean of the pharmaceutical department), and Adam Wrzosek () (dean of the medical department). Most of the faculty came from the Poznań University, transformed by the Nazis into a German-only institution after its Polish faculty was expelled. The university operated in Warsaw, and would cooperate with other underground Warsaw universities, native to the city.

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