Polesie Voivodeship

Polesie Voivodeship Województwo poleskie
Voivodeship of Poland
1921–1939
Coat of arms
Location of Polesie Voivodeship within the Second Polish Republic.
Capital	Pińsk (until August 1921) Brześć
Area
• 1921	42,280 km2 (16,320 sq mi)
• 1939	36,668 km2 (14,158 sq mi)
Population
• 1921	880,898
• 1931	1,132,200
Government
Voivode
• 1921–1922 (first)	Walery Roman
• 1932–1939 (last)	Wacław Kostek-Biernacki
Historical era	Interwar period
• Established	12 February 1921
• Soviet invasion	September 1939
Political subdivisions	27 / 9
Preceded by Succeeded by Polesian District Polesia Region Ukrainian SSR
Today part of	Ukraine, Belarus

Polesie Voivodeship (Polish: województwo poleskie) was an administrative unit of interwar Poland (1918–1939), named after the historical region of Polesia. It was created by the Council of Ministers of the Second Polish Republic on February 19, 1921,^[1] as a result of peace agreement signed with the Russian and Ukrainian SSRs in Riga. Polesie Voivodeship was the largest province of interwar Poland. It ceased to function in September 1939, following the Nazi-German and Soviet invasion of Poland in accordance with a secret protocol of the Nazi–Soviet Pact of non-aggression.