Administrative division of Poland

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Administrative division of Poland is as follows:

[edit] Modern

Poland is subdivided into sixteen administrative regions known as voivodeships (see voivodeships of Poland) (województwa, singular - województwo):

Voivodeship	Capital city (cities)
Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship (Kujawsko-Pomorskie)	Bydgoszcz and Toruń
Greater Poland Voivodeship (Wielkopolskie)	Poznań
Lesser Poland Voivodeship (Małopolskie)	Kraków
Łódź Voivodeship (Łódzkie)	Łódź
Lower Silesian Voivodeship (Dolnośląskie)	Wrocław
Lublin Voivodeship (Lubelskie)	Lublin
Lubusz Voivodeship (Lubuskie)	Gorzów Wielkopolski and Zielona Góra
Masovian Voivodeship (Mazowieckie)	Warsaw
Opole Voivodeship (Opolskie)	Opole
Podlachian Voivodeship (Podlaskie)	Białystok
Pomeranian Voivodeship (Pomorskie)	Gdańsk
Silesian Voivodeship (Śląskie)	Katowice
Subcarpathian Voivodeship (Podkarpackie)	Rzeszów
Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship (Świętokrzyskie)	Kielce
Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship (Warmińsko-Mazurskie)	Olsztyn
West Pomeranian Voivodeship (Zachodniopomorskie)	Szczecin

Lower levels of administrative division are:

• powiats (counties)
• gminas (commune)

[edit] Historical

• see Administrative division of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth