Warmia i Mazury
Warmia i Mazury (officially, the Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodship) is an administrative region or voivodship of north-eastern Poland.
It was created on 1 January 1999 out of the former Olsztyn and parts of Suwalki and Elblag voivodships as a result of Local Goverment Reogranization Act of 1998. The voivodship's name recalls the region's 2 historical lands of Ermland (Warmia) and Masuria (Mazury).
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The territory consists of landscape Warmia and land of lakes Mazury. The capital is Olsztyn. It's just south of Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast.
This territory was once the southern part of East Prussia.
Voivodships of Poland:
Greater Poland Voivodship | Kujavian-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
