Warmia i Mazury Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

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Warmia i Mazury (officially, the Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodship) is an administrative region or voivodship of north-eastern Poland. The capital is Olsztyn.

It was created on 1 January 1999 out of the former Olsztyn and parts of Suwalki and Elblag voivodships as a result of Local Government Reogranization Act of 1998. The voivodship's name recalls the region's two historical lands of Warmia (German: Ermland) and Masuria (Mazury).

The territory is just south of Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast. It was once the southern part of East Prussia.

The capital of this administrative region is: Olsztyn.
Area: 24,202 km²
Population: 1,460,900.

Administrative division

19 counties (2 city counties + 17 land counties)

• Elblag City County
• Olsztyn City County

• Bartoszyce County, Bartoszyce
• Braniewo County, Braniewo
• Działdowo County;, Działdowo;
• Elbląg County;, Elbląg;
• Elk County, Ełk;
• Giżycko County;, Giżycko;
• Iława County;, Iława;
• Kętrzyn County;, Kętrzyn;
• Lidzbark County, Lidzbark Warmiński;
• Mrągowo County;, Mrągowo;
• Nidzica County, Nidzica
• Nowe Miasto County, Nowe Miasto Lubawskie
• Olecko-Gołdap County;, Olecko
• Olsztyn County, Olsztyn
• Ostróda County, Ostróda
• Pisz County, Pisz
• Szczytno County, Szczytno

Major cities and towns

(population 2003)

• Olsztyn (177,200)
• Elblag (130,800)
• Elk (57,200)
• Ostroda (35,400)
• Ilawa (34,000)
• Gizycko (31,500)
• Ketrzyn (30,100)
• Szczytno (27,000)
• Bartoszyce (26,400)
• Mragowo (23,400)
• Dzialdowo (21,100)

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