Masovian Voivodeship
The Mazowieckie Voivodeship (Polish: województwo mazowieckie ) is one of 16 regions into which the Republic of Poland is divided. It went public in 1999 at the Polish local government reform emerge from the provinces of Warsaw, Płock, Ciechanów, Ostrołęka, Siedlce and Radom. The largest province of the country includes the area around the capital city Warsaw.
- 3.1 Largest cities
- 3.2 rivers
- 5.1 External links
- 5.2 footnotes
Coat of arms
Description: In a red gold reinforced and confess änderter and gezungter silver eagle.
Administrative divisions
The province comprises 37 counties, with 5 cities remain acyclic. The counties named after them they do not belong to themselves.
Independent Cities
Counties
(Residents on June 30, 2006)
Geography
Mazovia is the Polish plane on both sides of the middle Vistula. Along the Vistula there is fertile alluvial soil, many areas north of it but have only humus-rich sandy bottom.
Largest cities
See also: List of cities in the Masovian Voivodeship
Economy
Mazovia is the wealthiest region in Poland. Expressed in comparison with the EU GDP in purchasing power standards reached the province in 2006 an index of 83.6 (EU-27 = 100; Poland = 52.3 ).
This is mainly due to the economically strong region around Warsaw around, the rural regions of Mazovia are economically around the level of the Polish average. The economic performance of the region is at the level of the new federal states.
The unemployment rate in 2005 was 14.8% and decreased until December 2009 to 9.0 percent. This Masovian Voivodeship is the lowest unemployment rate, followed by the Wielkopolska Region.