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Masovian Voivodeship
Województwo mazowieckie | |
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Voivodeship | |
 Flag  Coat of arms  Brandmark | |
| Motto: "Serce Polski" (Heart of Poland) | |
 Location within Poland | |
 Division into counties | |
| Coordinates (Warsaw): 52°13′N 21°0′E / 52.217°N 21.000°E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Capital | Warsaw |
| Counties | 5 cities, 37 land counties *
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| Government | |
| • Body | Executive board |
| • Voivode | Mariusz Frankowski (PO) |
| • Marshal | Adam Struzik (PSL) |
| • EP | Masovian constituency Warsaw constituency |
| Area | |
| • Total | 35,579 km2 (13,737 sq mi) |
| Population (2019) | |
| • Total | 5,411,446[1] |
| • Density | 151/km2 (390/sq mi) |
| GDP [2] | |
| • Total | €150.3 billion (2022) |
| • Per capita | €27,300 (2022) |
| ISO 3166 code | PL-14 |
| Vehicle registration | W, A |
| HDI (2021) | 0.926[3] very high · 1st |
| Website | www |
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Masovian Voivodeship (Polish: województwo mazowieckie, pronounced [vɔjɛˈvut͡stfɔ mazɔˈvjɛt͡skʲɛ] ⓘ) is a voivodeship (province) in east-central Poland, containing Poland's capital Warsaw.
Masovian Voivodeship has an area of 35,579 square kilometres (13,737 sq mi) and had a 2019 population of 5,411,446, making it Poland's largest and most populous province.[1] Its principal cities are Warsaw (1.783 million) in the center of the Warsaw metropolitan area, Radom (212,230) to the south, Płock (119,709) to the west, Siedlce (77,990) to the east, and Ostrołęka (52,071) to the north. It borders six other provinces: Warmia-Mazury to the north, Podlaskie to the northeast, Lublin to the southeast, Holy Cross to the south, Łódź to the southwest, and Kujawy-Pomorze to the northwest.
The name of the province recalls the region's traditional name, Mazovia (also spelled Masovia), with which it is roughly coterminous. However, the province's southern part, including Radom, historically belonged to Lesser Poland; while Łomża with environs, though historically part of Mazovia, is now part of Podlaskie Voivodeship. The Masovian Voivodeship was created on 1 January 1999, under the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998, out of the former provinces of Warsaw, Płock, Ciechanów, Ostrołęka, Siedlce, and Radom.
Masovian Voivodeship is Poland's prime center of science, research, education, industry, and infrastructure.[4] It has Poland's lowest unemployment rate and is a very high-income province.[4] It is also popular with tourists due to the many historical monuments and its over 20% forested area of pine and oak.[5] The province's Kampinos National Park is a UNESCO biosphere reserve.
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- ^ "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 2018-09-13.
- ^ a b "WHY WARSAW? - Aquatherm Warsaw". Retrieved 10 April 2017.
- ^ Internet, JSK. "Mazowieckie Province". Archived from the original on 30 May 2019. Retrieved 10 April 2017.