Province in northern Poland
Voivodeship in Poland
Pomeranian Voivodeship (Polish :województwo pomorskie [vɔjɛˈvut͡stfɔ ⓘ Kashubian :Pòmòrsczé wòjewództwò [pvɛˈmvɛrst͡ʃi voivodeship , orprovince , in northwesternPoland . The provincial capital isGdańsk .
The voivodeship was established on January 1, 1999, out of the former voivodeships ofGdańsk ,Elbląg andSłupsk , pursuant to thePolish local government reforms adopted in 1997. It is bordered by theWest Pomeranian Voivodeship to the west,Greater Poland and theKuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship to the south, theWarmian-Masurian Voivodeship to the east, and theBaltic Sea to the north. It also shares a short land border withRussia (Kaliningrad Oblast ), on theVistula Spit . The bulk of the voivodeship is located in the historic region ofPomerania , with the territories on the eastern bank of the Vistula being part ofPowiśle . The Pomeranian part of the region comprises most ofPomerelia (the easternmost part of Pomerania) with its subregions ofKashubia andKociewie , whereas the western part, aroundSłupsk , is part ofFarther Pomerania .
The province is one of rich cultural heritage. TheTricity urban area, consisting ofGdańsk ,Gdynia andSopot , is one of the main cultural, commercial and educational centres of Poland. Gdańsk and Gdynia are two of the major Polish seaports, the first erected byMieszko I of Poland in theMiddle Ages , the latter built in theinterwar period . Amongst the most recognisable landmarks of the region are the historic city centre of Gdańsk filled with Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque masterpieces, the Museum of the National Anthem inBędomin , located at the birthplace ofJózef Wybicki , poet and politician, author of thenational anthem of Poland , the largest medieval churches of Poland (theSt. Mary's Church in Gdańsk and theCathedral Basilica of the Assumption inPelplin ) and theMalbork Castle . The voivodeship also includes the narrowHel Peninsula and the Polish half of the Vistula Spit. Other tourist destinations includeWejherowo ,Sopot ,Jurata ,Łeba ,Władysławowo ,Puck ,Krynica Morska ,Ustka ,Jastarnia ,Kuźnica ,Bytów and many fishing ports, lighthouses, and marinas.
The namePomerania derives from theSlavic po more , meaning "by the sea" or "on the sea".[ 3]
Gdańsk , principal seaport of Poland since the Middle Ages and the capital of Pomeranian VoivodeshipSłupsk , the largest city in the west of the voivodeshipTczew , the largest city in the ethnocultural region ofKociewie Wejherowo , one of the main centres of the ethnocultural region ofKashubia Starogard Gdański , the capital of KociewieSopot , a resort and one of the three cities of theTricity Historical population Year Pop. ±% 1988 2,095,147 — 2002 2,179,900 +4.0% 2011 2,276,174 +4.4% 2021 2,357,320 +3.6% Source:[ 4]
The voivodeship contains 7 cities and 35 towns. These are listed below in descending order of population (official 2019 figures).[ 5]
Cities (governed by a city mayor orprezydent miasta ): Gdańsk (468,158)Gdynia (246,244)Słupsk (90,769)Tczew (60,120)Wejherowo (49,652)Starogard Gdański (47,775)Sopot (35,827)Towns:
Rumia (49,160)Chojnice (39,890)Malbork (38,465)Kwidzyn (38,444)Lębork (35,333)Pruszcz Gdański (31,135)Reda (26,011)Kościerzyna (23,776)Bytów (16,918)Ustka (15,460)Kartuzy (14,536)Człuchów (13,649)Puck (11,213)Miastko (10,439)Sztum (9,940)Władysławowo (9,930)Czersk (9,910)Nowy Dwór Gdański (9,905)Prabuty (8,695)Pelplin (7,784)Skarszewy (6,994)Gniew (6,707)Żukowo (6,691)Czarne (5,932)Dzierzgoń (5,364)Brusy (5,188)Debrzno (5,096)Nowy Staw (4,248)Łeba (3,644)Skórcz (3,625)Kępice (3,580)Hel (3,267)Czarna Woda (2,786)Jastarnia (2,704)Krynica Morska (1,303)Kobylnica Administrative division [ edit ] Pomeranian Voivodeship is divided into 20 counties (powiats ): 4 city counties, and 16 land counties. These are further divided into 123gminas (communes).
The counties are listed below in order of decreasing population.
English and Area(km2 ) Population(2019) Seat Other towns Totalgminas City counties Gdańsk 262 468,158 1 Gdynia 136 246,244 1 Słupsk 43.15 90,769 1 Sopot 17.31 35,827 1 Land counties Wejherowo County 1,280 216,764 Wejherowo Rumia ,Reda 10 Starogard County 1,345 128,055 Starogard Gdański Skarszewy ,Skórcz ,Czarna Woda 13 Tczew County 698 115,738 Tczew Pelplin ,Gniew 6 Kartuzy County 1,120 137,942 Kartuzy Żukowo 8 Słupsk County 2,304 98,793 Słupsk *Ustka ,Kępice 10 Chojnice County 1,364 97,616 Chojnice Czersk ,Brusy 5 Gdańsk County 793 117,452 Pruszcz Gdański 8 Kwidzyn County 835 83,231 Kwidzyn Prabuty 6 Bytów County 2,193 79,260 Bytów Miastko 10 Puck County 578 86,203 Puck Władysławowo ,Jastarnia ,Hel 7 Kościerzyna County 1,166 72,589 Kościerzyna 8 Lębork County 707 66,196 Lębork Łeba 5 Malbork County 495 63,575 Malbork Nowy Staw 6 Człuchów County 1,574 56,225 Człuchów Czarne ,Debrzno 7 Sztum County 731 41,808 Sztum Dzierzgoń 5 Nowy Dwór Gdański County 653 35,656 Nowy Dwór Gdański Krynica Morska 5 * seat not part of the county
Timeline since 1919 [ edit ]
Pomeranian Voivodeship Office in Gdańsk Gdańskseaport TheGross domestic product (GDP) of the province was 29.2 billion euros in 2018, accounting for 5.9% of Polish economic output. GDP per capita adjusted for purchasing power was 20,800 euros or 69% of the EU27 average in the same year. The GDP per employee was 74% of the EU average.[ 6]
TheA1 ,S6 andS7 highways pass through the province.
The three busiest railway stations of northern Poland, and three of ten busiest railway stations of Poland overall, are located in the voivodeship. Those areGdynia Główna ,Gdańsk Główny andGdańsk Wrzeszcz .[ 8]
Gdańsk University Faculty of Law, in Gdańsk-Przymorze Main building,Gdańsk University of Technology Name Location Studentsin thousands total of which Total - 97.9 55.3 Uniwersytet GdańskiGdańsk University ) Tricity 29.3 19.4 Politechnika GdańskaGdańsk University of Technology ) Gdańsk 17.6 5.9 Akademia Pomorska w Słupsku Słupsk 8.1 6.0 Akademia Medyczna w GdańskuMedical University of Gdańsk ) Gdańsk 4.2 3.1 Akademia Wychowanie Fizycznego i Sportu w Gdańsku Gdańsk 4.1 1.9 Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Gdańsku Gdańsk 0.9 0.7 Akademia Marynarki Wojennej im. Bohaterów WesterplattePolish Naval Academy ) Gdynia . . Akademia Morska w GdyniGdynia Maritime Academy ) Gdynia . . Gdańskie Seminarium Duchowne Gdańsk . . Akademia Muzyczna im. Stanisława Moniuszki w GdańskuStanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music, in Gdańsk) Gdańsk . . Data as of 31 November 2005, sourcehttp://www.stat.gov.pl
Dunes , Słowiński National ParkProtected areas in Pomeranian Voivodeship include twoNational Parks and nineLandscape Parks . These are listed below.
Ergo Arena on the boundary betweenGdańsk andSopot , home venue of theTrefl Sopot basketball team andTrefl Gdańsk volleyball teamGdynia Arena , home venue of the Arka Gdynia basketball teams andSPR Gdynia handball teamGdańsk Stadium , home venue of theLechia Gdańsk football teamFootball ,basketball ,motorcycle speedway andvolleyball enjoy the largest following in the voivodeship. TheArka Gdynia andLechia Gdańsk football clubs contest theTricity Derby , the fiercest football rivalry in northern Poland.
Since the establishment of the province, several major international sports competitions were co-hosted by the province, including theEuroBasket 2009 ,UEFA Euro 2012 ,2013 Men's European Volleyball Championship ,2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship ,2016 European Men's Handball Championship ,2017 Men's European Volleyball Championship ,2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup ,2021 Men's European Volleyball Championship ,2023 World Men's Handball Championship .
Malbork Castle ,UNESCO World Heritage Site andHistoric Monument of Poland There are twospa towns in the province:Sopot andUstka . The provincial capital ofGdańsk was the largest city of Poland for over 250 years, from the mid-15th century to the early 18th century, when it was surpassed by the national capital ofWarsaw . Gdańsk has five sites listed asHistoric Monuments of Poland , a joint record withKraków , including its historic city center.[ 9] There are numerous castles in the province, and theKwidzyn andMalbork castles are listed asHistoric Monuments of Poland ,[ 10] [ 11] UNESCO World Heritage Site . The longest wooden pier in Europe, theSopot Pier , is located in the voivodeship. In 1380, the first Scots settled in Gdańsk, founding what would eventually become a significantScottish diaspora in Poland , and later on, Scots also lived inChojnice ,Czarne ,Człuchów ,Debrzno ,Gniew ,Kościerzyna ,Puck ,Starogard Gdański ,Tczew .[ 12] Stare Szkoty neighbourhood of Gdańsk is named after the Scottish settlers. One of the three parish churches of theArmenian Catholic Church in Poland is located in Gdańsk (see also:Armenians in Poland The voivodeship features several places where major international treaties were signed in the past, i.e. theDano -Polish truce of 1458 and Polish-Swedish alliance of 1677, both signed in Gdańsk,[ 13] [ 14] Stary Targ andSztumska Wieś , respectively, and thepeace treaty ending theSecond Northern War of 1655–1660. Sztutowo is the location of the formerStutthof concentration camp , the first Nazi German concentration camp established outside of pre-war Germany duringWorld War II .TheWesterplatte peninsula in Gdańsk was the site of theBattle of Westerplatte , the first battle of the Germaninvasion of Poland andWorld War II , and is now designated aHistoric Monument of Poland .[ 15] During World War II, theStalag II-B andStalag XX-B majorprisoner-of-war camps for Polish, British,French , Belgian, Serbian, Dutch, Soviet, Italian, American, Australian, New Zealander, Canadian, Senegalese, Malagasy, Tunisian, Moroccan, Algerian and otherAllied POWs were operated in the territory by Nazi Germany. There are cemeteries of the POWs at the sites inCzarne andMalbork . There are numerous memorials at the sites of Nazi massacres of Poles from World War II, including the largest massacres inPiaśnica ,Szpęgawsk andChojnice . The Pomeranian Voivodeship is one of four first-level administrative divisions containing the name of the region of Pomerania, the other being the neighbouring West Pomeranian Voivodeship and Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland, andMecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany. ^ "EU regions by GDP" . Eurostat. Retrieved18 September 2023 .^ "Sub-national HDI - Subnational HDI" . Global Data Lab.Radboud University Nijmegen . Retrieved2021-12-13 .^ Der Name Pommern (po more) ist slawischer Herkunft und bedeutet so viel wie "Land am Meer". Archived 2020-08-19 at theWayback Machine (Pommersches Landesmuseum, German)^ "Statistics Poland - National Censuses" .^ GUS."Population. Size and structure and vital statistics in Poland by territorial division in 2019. As of 30th June" .stat.gov.pl . Archived fromthe original on 2021-04-19. Retrieved2020-09-11 . ^ "Regional GDP per capita ranged from 30% to 263% of the EU average in 2018" .Eurostat .Archived from the original on 2022-10-10.^ "Economy" (PDF) .The Province of Pomerania . Archived fromthe original (PDF) on 2006-12-31. Retrieved2007-01-22 .^ "Wymiana pasażerska na stacjach" .Portal statystyczny UTK (in Polish). Archived fromthe original on 8 October 2022. Retrieved19 May 2024 .^ Zarządzenie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 8 września 1994 r. w sprawie uznania za pomnik historii. , M.P., 1994, vol. 50, No. 415^ Rozporządzenie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 20 kwietnia 2018 r. w sprawie uznania za pomnik historii "Kwidzyn - zespół katedralno-zamkowy" , Dz. U., 2018, No. 930^ Zarządzenie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 8 września 1994 r. w sprawie uznania za pomnik historii. , M.P., 1994, vol. 50, No. 420^ Wijaczka, Jacek (2010). "Szkoci". In Kopczyński, Michał; Tygielski, Wojciech (eds.).Pod wspólnym niebem. Narody dawnej Rzeczypospolitej (in Polish). Warszawa: Muzeum Historii Polski, Bellona. pp. 201– 202.ISBN 978-83-11-11724-2 ^ "Kalendarz dat: 1458" .Dzieje.pl (in Polish). Retrieved22 August 2024 .^ Jonasson, Gustav (1980). "Polska i Szwecja za czasów Jana III Sobieskiego".Śląski Kwartalnik Historyczny Sobótka (in Polish).XXXV (2). Wrocław:Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich , WydawnictwoPolskiej Akademii Nauk : 240.ISSN 0037-7511 . ^ Rozporządzenie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 22 sierpnia 2003 r. w sprawie uznania za pomnik historii , Dz. U., 2003, vol. 148, No. 1448
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