page_title: Podlaskie Voivodeship
section_title: Subdivisions and Białystok Metropolitan Region
hierarchical_section_title: Podlaskie Voivodeship / Subdivisions and Białystok Metropolitan Region
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of Podlaskie Voivodship Polski: Mapa województwa podlaskiego
context_page_description: Podlaskie Voivodeship or Podlasie Province is a voivodeship in northeastern Poland. It borders on Masovian Voivodeship to the west, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship to the northwest, Lublin Voivodeship to the south, the Belarusian Voblasts 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 capital of Podlasie Province is Białystok. 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.
context_section_description: Podlaskie Voivodeship is divided into 17 counties (powiats): 3 city counties and 14 land counties. These are further divided into 118 gminas.
  Metropolitan Białystok was designated by the Voivodeship of the Regulation No. 52/05 of 16 May 2005  in order to help economically develop the region. In 2006, the metropolitan area population was 450,254 inhabitants. It covers an area of 1.521 km ². For one km², there are about 265 people. Among urban residents are more women - 192 thousand. on 100 men, 108 women on average. The municipalities adjacent to Białystok are slowly losing their agricultural character, becoming the residential suburban neighborhoods.
caption: Map of the Podlaskie Voivodeship
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