Pomeranian Voivodeship
The Pomeranian Voivodeship, Polish województwo Pomeranian, Kashubian Pòmòrsczé WOJEWÓDZTWO with capital Gdańsk (Danzig) is one of the 16 provinces of the Republic of Poland. She went to the local government reform in 1999 from the voivodeships of Gdańsk and from a part of voivodships Slupsk ( Stolp ), Elbląg ( Elbing ) and Bydgoszcz ( Bromberg ), and includes the eastern part of the historical landscape Pomerania with Pomerania and the far east of the former Prussian province of Pomerania, also territories east of the Vistula river, belonging to the natural and historic Prussia; it is thus similar to the former Prussian province of West Prussia sized. Since it also includes the eastern part of the former Eastern Pomerania, it extends to the northwest of the area of the Pomeranian Voivodeship of the Polish nobility and the Republic of the Province of Pomerania of the Second Polish Republic and abroad, but extends less far to the south.
- 5.1 Nachbarwoiwodschaften
- 5.2 cities of the province
- 5.3 rivers
- 9.1 External links
- 9.2 footnotes
Coat of arms
Description: In a gold rotbezungter black grip with durchgeschlagenem tail.
Management
Since the regional and municipal elections on 22 November 2010, 33 seats are distributed in Sejmik as follows: 19 - Platforma Obywatelska (PO ), 7 - Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (PiS ), 3 - Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej (SLD ), 3 - Polskie (PSL ), 1 - no party affiliation.
Chairman of the Regional Parliament, Jan Kleinschmidt (PO ), his deputies are Dariusz Męczykowski (PO ), Marek Biernacki (PO) and Piotr Zwara (PiS ).
Population
According to the 2011 census, approximately 2.28 million people lived in the region. The largest ethnic groups were 2.22 million Poles ( 97.7 %), 228 thousand ( 10%) Kashubian, 4800 German and 4200 Ukrainians ( each about 0.2 %), with a membership of several ethnic groups not were excluded.
Administrative divisions
The Pomeranian Voivodeship is divided into 16 counties ( powiaty ) and four county-level cities. Two counties called for a independent city.
Independent Cities
Counties
(Population and area on June 30, 2008)
Tri-City
Covering an area of 1,332 km ² and has a population of just under one million people, the closely spaced cities of Gdansk, Gdynia and Sopot form the Polish Tricity metropolitan area ( Gdynia and Sopot). The region around the Gulf of Gdansk is one next to the outskirts of Warsaw and Krakow, the most densely populated regions of the country.
Geography
Nachbarwoiwodschaften
Cities of the province
The voivodship Danzig has around 456,000 inhabitants and is the sixth largest city in the country and by far the largest in the province. The nearby Gdynia has around 250,000 inhabitants, only slightly more than half as many inhabitants.
- Słupia ( Stolpe )
- Wisła ( Vistula )
Economy
Expressed in comparison with the EU GDP in purchasing power standards reached the province in 2006 an index of 51.5 (EU-27 = 100). The unemployment rate in 2005 was 18.9%. Until December 2009 it dropped to 12.0 percent.
Partnership
The Pomorskie Voivodeship maintains a regional partnership with the region of Middle Franconia in Bavaria.
Tourism
Tourism plays an important role both in cities like Gdansk and on the coast in seaside towns like Sopot ( Sopot ).