page_title: Opole Voivodeship
section_title: Administrative division
hierarchical_section_title: Opole Voivodeship / Administrative division
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Rynek w Nysie - widok na kamienice i budynek wagi miejskiej. English: Nysa - City Center
context_page_description: Opole Voivodeship, or Opole Province, is the smallest and least populated voivodeship of Poland. The province's name derives from that of the region's capital and largest city, Opole. It is part of Upper Silesia. A relatively large German minority, with representatives in the Sejm, lives in the voivodeship, and the German language is co-official in 28 communes.
  Opole Voivodeship is bordered by Lower Silesian Voivodeship to the west, Greater Poland and Łódź Voivodeships to the north, Silesian Voivodeship to the east, and the Czech Republic to the south.
  Opole Province's geographic location, economic potential, and its population's level of education make it an attractive business partner for other Polish regions and for foreign investors. Formed in 1997, the Praděd/Pradziad Euroregion has facilitated economic, cultural and tourist exchanges between the border areas of Poland and the Czech Republic.
context_section_description: Opole Voivodeship is divided into 12 counties (powiats): 1 city county and 11 land counties. These are further divided into 71 gminas.
  The counties are listed in the following table (ordering is by decreasing population).
caption: Nysa, the third-largest town by population in the south-west
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