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Warmia i Mazury

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.

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)

Voivodships of Poland

Greater Poland Voivodship | Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodship | Lesser Poland Voivodship | Lodz Voivodship | Lower Silesian Voivodship | Lublin Voivodship | Lubusz Voivodship | Masovian Voivodship | Opole Voivodship | Subcarpathian Voivodship | Podlasie Voivodship | Pomeranian Voivodship | Swietokrzyskie Voivodship | Silesian Voivodship | Warmian-Masurian Voivodship | West Pomeranian Voivodship

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