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Mazowsze Voivodship (Polish: ) is the largest and most populous of the sixteen Polish administrative regions or voivodships created in 1999. It covers an area of 35,598 km² in eastern-central Poland and has nearly 5.1 million inhabitants. Its principal cities are Warsaw (population 1.6 million) in the center, Radom (227,309) in the south, Płock (130,000) in the west, Siedlce (75,000) in the east, and Ostrołęka (55,000) in the north.

Mazowsze Voivodship was created January 1, 1999, out of the former Warsaw, Płock, Ciechanów, Ostrołęka, Siedlce and Radom voivodships, pursuant to the Local Government Reorganization Act of 1998. The voivodship's name recalls the traditional name of the region, Mazowsze, with which it is roughly coterminous.

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Mazowsze Voivodship counties

Mazowsze Voivodship is divided into 42 counties (powiat): 4 city counties (miasto na prawach powiatu) and 38 land counties (powiat ziemski), comprising 325 communes (gmina), which include 85 urban communes or cities.

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  1. Warsaw
  2. Ostrołęka and Ostrołęka County
  3. Płock County and Płock City County
  4. Radom County and Radom City County
  5. Siedlce and Siedlce City County
  6. Żuromin
  7. Mława
  8. Przasnysz
  9. Ciechanów
  10. Sierpc
  11. Maków Mazowiecki
  12. Ostrów Mazowiecka
  13. Płońsk
  14. Pułtusk
  15. Wyszków
  16. Gostynin
  17. Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki
  18. Legionowo
  19. Wołomin
  1. Węgrów
  2. Sokołów Podlaski
  3. Sochaczew
  4. Warszawa Zachód
  5. Mińsk Mazowiecki
  6. Łosice
  7. Żyrardów
  8. Grodzisk Mazowiecki
  9. Pruszków
  10. Piaseczno
  11. Otwock County
  12. Grójec
  13. Garwolin County
  14. Białobrzegi
  15. Kozienice
  16. Przysucha County
  17. Zwoleń
  18. Szydłowiec
  19. Lipsko

Polish names and County Capitals

Major cities and towns

Warsaw after dark.
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Warsaw after dark.

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John Paul II Avenue.

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Mazowsze Voivodship, 1526-1795 (Polish: ) was an administrative region of the Kingdom of Poland, and of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, from the 15th century to the partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1795). Together with Płock and Rawa Voivodships, it formed the province of Mazovia.

Municipal government

Seat of the Voivodship Governor (Wojewoda):

Administrative division

Voivods

Voivodeships of Poland

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Principal cities: Warsaw | Łódź | Kraków | Wrocław | Poznań | Gdańsk | Szczecin | Bydgoszcz | Lublin | Katowice | Białystok | Częstochowa | Gdynia | Gorzów Wielkopolski | Toruń | Radom | Kielce | Rzeszów | Olsztyn

 

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