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Poland: 16 provinces, states and territories

Every administrative level, from the 16 first-level units down to ADM3, on a terrain map with people, density and sources.

Page GRX-POL-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO POL / PLStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
16
first-level units
2,874
units at 3 levels
39,498,527
people (GHSL 2025)
Terrain
open relief

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Poland by province, state and territory

16 first-level units and 380 second-level units inside them, raised by people per km² over the population grid and terrain. Select a unit to drill in or open its page.

FIG 1 · 16 first-level units of Poland
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
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Every administrative level of Poland

Each level comes from the boundary source admitted for that country and level, with its own licence.

ADM1
16 first-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 · each with its own page
ADM2
380 second-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 · each with its own page
ADM3
2,478 third-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 · in the maps, tables and downloads of the pages above
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All 16 first-level units

Two population estimates from open grids, summed inside each boundary. The CSV carries the first two levels; each unit page carries the levels below it.

Boundary licences: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0.

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Greater Poland Voivodeship PL-WP 3,621,913 3,553,516 29,709 122 9.2% 18
Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship PL-KP 2,164,147 2,157,475 17,899 121 5.5% 223
Lesser Poland Voivodeship PL-MA 3,515,771 3,575,151 15,133 232 8.9% 0
Łódź Voivodeship PL-LD 2,476,201 2,372,314 18,151 136 6.3% 0
Lower Silesian Voivodeship PL-DS 2,992,393 2,906,599 19,874 151 7.6% 0
Lublin Voivodeship PL-LU 2,152,203 2,000,125 25,031 86 5.4% 0
Lubusz Voivodeship PL-LB 1,102,248 986,181 13,932 79 2.8% 5,663
Masovian Voivodeship PL-MZ 5,682,256 5,645,225 35,419 160 14.4% 0
Opole Voivodeship PL-OP 949,965 919,556 9,379 101 2.4% 0
Podlaskie Voivodeship PL-PD 1,221,048 1,209,608 20,104 61 3.1% 0
Pomeranian Voivodeship PL-PM 2,375,317 2,356,284 18,089 131 6% 317,984
Silesian Voivodeship PL-SL 4,565,607 4,290,019 12,291 371 11.6% 0
Subcarpathian Voivodeship PL-PK 2,183,033 2,115,030 17,786 123 5.5% 0
Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship PL-SK 1,266,228 1,148,943 11,666 109 3.2% 0
Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship PL-WN 1,498,881 1,470,473 23,911 63 3.8% 32,570
West Pomeranian Voivodeship PL-ZP 1,731,316 1,594,080 22,416 77 4.4% 229,825
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Subnational risk products

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Poland publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index, with intervals and sources. Until then these pages show boundaries, people and exposure only.
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Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen POL ADM1, source: OpenStreetMap, Wambacher © OpenStreetMap contributors, licence: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2017. Offered under the same licence (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen POL ADM2, source: Geoboundaries, OpenStreetMap © OpenStreetMap contributors, licence: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2017. Offered under the same licence (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
ADM3 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen POL ADM3, source: OpenStreetMap, Wambacher © OpenStreetMap contributors, licence: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2017. Offered under the same licence (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
Amazwe
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.

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