Podlaskie Voivodeship

Podlaskie Voivodeship Województwo podlaskie
Voivodeship
Flag Coat of arms Brandmark
Location within Poland
Division into counties
Coordinates (Białystok): 53°7′N 23°10′E / 53.117°N 23.167°E / 53.117; 23.167
Country	Poland
Capital	Białystok
Counties	3 cities, 14 land counties*  Białystok Łomża Suwałki Augustów County Białystok County Bielsk County Grajewo County Hajnówka County Kolno County Łomża County Mońki County Sejny County Siemiatycze County Sokółka County Suwałki County Wysokie Mazowieckie County Zambrów County
Government
• Body	Executive board
• Voivode	Jacek Brzozowski (PO)
• Marshal	Łukasz Prokorym (PO)
• EP	Podlaskie and Warmian-Masurian
Area
• Total	20,180 km2 (7,790 sq mi)
Population  (2019)
• Total	1,179,430
• Density	58/km2 (150/sq mi)
• Urban	717,418
• Rural	462,012
GDP [1]
• Total	€12.722 billion
• Per capita	€11,000
ISO 3166 code	PL-20
Vehicle registration	B
HDI (2019)	0.873[2] very high · 8th
Website	bialystok.uw.gov.pl
further divided into 118 gminas.

Podlaskie Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo podlaskie [vɔjɛˈvut͡stfɔ pɔˈdlaskʲɛ] ^ⓘ) is a voivodeship (province) in northeastern Poland. The name of the province refers to the historical region of Podlachia, and part of its territory corresponds to this region.^[3] The capital and largest city is Białystok.

It borders on Masovian Voivodeship to the west, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship to the northwest, Lublin Voivodeship to the south, the Belarusian oblasts of Grodno and Brest to the east, the Lithuanian Counties of Alytus and Marijampolė to the northeast, and the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia to the north.

The province was created on 1 January 1999, pursuant to the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998, from the former Białystok and Łomża Voivodeships and the eastern half of the former Suwałki Voivodeship.