Tourists attracted to this region admire its beautiful nature and unique monuments from the past. All visitors have the sea, forests, mountains and scores of lakes and rivers within their reach. There is something for everyone.
The Pomorskie Voivodeship lies along the Baltic Sea, at the mouth of the Vistula River. To the west it borders the Zachodniopomorskie Voivodeship, to the south the Wielkopolskie and Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeships, to the east the Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodeship and to the north the Baltic Sea. The coastal location has to a great extent determined the economy of the region.
The capital of the region is Gdańsk, a city of almost half a million inhabitants. Apart from Gdańsk, the biggest cities and towns are Gdynia, Słupsk, Tczew and Sopot. The voivodeship covers an area of 18,293 square kilometres and is divided into 20 poviats.
Two national parks (Słowiński National Park and Bory Tucholskie National Park) can be found in the Voivodeship as well as 9 landscape parks and many nature reserves, which are open to the public.
The landscape has wide geographic variations: from lowlands (1.6 metresbelow sea level) to the highest peak of the Central European Uplands - Wieżyca (329 metres above sea level). |
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