Woiwodschaft Westpommern
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| capital: | Stettin | ||
| Woiwode: | Stanisław Wziątek | ||
| Woiwodschaftsmarschall: | Zygmunt Meyer | ||
| largest city: | Stettin | ||
| ISO 3166-2: | PL-ZP | ||
| inhabitant: | 1.696.000 (2003) | ||
| population density: | 74 inhabitants/km ² | ||
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| surface: | 22,902 km ² | ||
| - of it country: | ? km ² | ||
| - of it water: | ? km ² | ||
| expansion: | North south: to 150 km west east: to 179 km | ||
| highest point: | ? m. and. NN | ||
| deepest point: | ? m. and. NN | ||
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| of forests: | ? % | ||
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| circle-free cities: | 3 | ||
| districts: | 18 | ||
| - Municipalities: | 114 | ||
the Woiwodschaft Westpommern polarize (. Województwo zachodniopomorskie) is one of the 16 Woiwodschaften, which arranged the European Union state Poland. It liesin the northwest part of Poland and and is the part of Pommerns lain between Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Pomerellen covers the historical Eastern Pomerania as well as a very small part of the historical Vorpommern. Within the country Westpommern borders, the 1999 in the course of the Polish administrative reformfrom the Woiwodschaften Stettin and Köslin (Koszalin) followed, to the Woiwodschaften Lebus, large Poland and Pommern (from south to east). Capital Westpommerns is Stettin.
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administrative arrangement
the Woiwodschaft Westpommern into 18 districts is divided, whereby Stettin, Köslin and Swinemünde to remain circle-free. After the city Köslin designated circle belongs the citynot on.
circle-free cities
- Stettin (Szczecin)
- Köslin (Koszalin)
- Swinemünde (Świnoujście)
districts
Geografie
landscape
the thinly settled landscape is coined/shaped by ice-age formed Moränen, lakes and close coniferous forests. In the hinterland of the Baltic Sea coast the traffic streams from Stettin run to Danzig.The southeast of the Woiwodschaft is coined/shaped by the Pommer sea-plate.
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rivers
Population
the population consists almost exclusively of Polish Pommern, whose ancestor was settled after driving the German Pommern out from central Poland and from the area around Wilna and Grodno.
See also: Poland-German
economy
Westpommern is a quite wealthy Woiwodschaft; even commuters from the neighbouring Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania go here to the work. In the area of the Woiwodschaft the most important port of Poland is with Stettin and Swinemünde (before Danzig/Gdingen). In addition Stettin is an internationally meaning shipyard location.
tourism
tourism plays an increasingly more important role, particularly in the Baltic Sea coast in bathing resorts such as Swinemünde, Kolberg, Misdroy among other things
Ermland Masuren | Large Poland | Holy cross | Karpatenvorland | Small Poland | Kujawien Pommern | Lebus | Łódź | Lublin | Masowien | Niederschlesien | Oppeln | Podlachien | Pommern | Schlesien | Westpommern
coordinates: 53° 36 ′ 23 " N, 15° 32 ′ 17 " O
