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Updates: 

The 2010 version of the NUTS standard shows a new set of subregions, with newly assigned NUTS codes. The codes for regions and voivodships remain unchanged.

I have added new population data from the 2011 census, and previous censuses. The data were provided by Valentin Arzoumanian and Sorin Cosoveanu.

ISO 3166-2 Newsletter II-3 is dated 2011-12-15. It merely changes the sort order of the divisions of Poland.

FIPS PUB 10-4 is the U.S. Federal standard for administrative divisions of countries. Change 2 to FIPS PUB 10-4 is dated 1999-03-01. This change recognizes the reorganization of Poland that took effect on 1998-07-27. Update I-1 to ISO 3166-2 was published on 2000-06-21. It also shows the revised list of voivodships from 1998. The FIPS and ISO codes for the current divisions of Poland are shown in the table below.

Country overview: 

Short name	POLAND
ISO code	PL
FIPS code	PL
Language	Polish (pl)
Time zone	+1~
Capital	Warsaw

 

In 1900, historical Poland was entirely subjected to other nations. The area that is now Poland was split among the German, Russian, and Austro-Hungarian Empires. At the end of World War I, the Poles proclaimed a republic which was then validated by the Versailles Treaty. As World War II began, Germany and the Soviet Union overran the country from opposite sides to the middle. In the settlements ending the war, Poland was reconstituted. As compared to the interbellum period, it gained territory in the west from Germany, but lost territory in the east to the Soviet Union. It remained independent, but under the hegemony of the Soviet Union, until the Iron Curtain fell in 1989.

Other names of country: 

1. Danish: Polen
2. Dutch: Polen, Republiek Polen (formal)
3. English: Polish Republic (formal)
4. Finnish: Puola
5. French: Pologne f
6. German: Polen n
7. Hungarian: Lengyelország
8. Icelandic: Pólland
9. Italian: Polonia f
10. Norwegian: Polen, Republikken Polen (formal)
11. Polish: Polska, Rzeczpospolita Polska (formal)
12. Portuguese: Polónia, Polônia f (Brazil), República f da Polónia f (formal)
13. Russian: Республика Польша (formal)
14. Spanish: Polonia, República f Polaca (formal)
15. Swedish: Polen
16. Turkish: Polonya Cumhuriyeti (formal)

Origin of name: 

from ethnic name Polane, from Slavic pole: field

Primary subdivisions: 

Poland is divided into sixteen wojewodztwa (voivodships).

Voivodship	HASC	FIPS	NUTS	Pop-2011	Pop-2002	Pop-1988	Area(km.²)	Area(mi.²)	Capital	Former
Dolnośląskie	PL.DS	PL72	PL51	2,915,238	2,907,212	2,948,212	19,947	7,701	Wrocław	Jelenia Góra, Legnica, Wałbrzych, Wrocław
Kujawsko-pomorskie	PL.KP	PL73	PL61	2,097,634	2,069,321	2,044,049	17,971	6,939	Bydgoszcz	Bydgoszcz, Toruń, Włocławek
Łódzkie	PL.LD	PL74	PL11	2,538,677	2,612,890	2,703,698	18,219	7,034	Łódź	Łódź, Piotrków, Sieradz, Skierniewice
Lubelskie	PL.LU	PL75	PL31	2,175,700	2,199,054	2,209,221	25,122	9,700	Lublin	Biała Podlaska, Chełm, Lublin, Zamość
Lubuskie	PL.LB	PL76	PL43	1,022,843	1,008,954	982,684	13,988	5,401	Gorzów Wielkopolski	Gorzów, Zielona Góra
Małopolskie	PL.MA	PL77	PL21	3,337,471	3,240,730	3,088,458	15,183	5,862	Kraków	Kraków, Nowy Sącz, Tarnów
Mazowieckie	PL.MZ	PL78	PL12	5,268,660	5,124,018	4,997,845	35,558	13,729	Warszawa	Ciechanów, Ostrołęka, Płock, Radom, Siedlce, Warszawa
Opolskie	PL.OP	PL79	PL52	1,016,213	1,065,043	1,080,701	9,412	3,634	Opole	Opole
Podkarpackie	PL.PK	PL80	PL32	2,127,285	2,095,515	2,010,714	17,846	6,890	Rzeszów	Krosno, Przemyśl, Rzeszów, Tarnobrzeg
Podlaskie	PL.PD	PL81	PL34	1,202,365	1,208,606	1,188,547	20,187	7,794	Białystok	Białystok, Łomża
Pomorskie	PL.PM	PL82	PL63	2,276,176	2,179,900	2,095,147	18,310	7,070	Gdańsk	Elbląg, Gdańsk, Słupsk
Śląskie	PL.SL	PL83	PL22	4,630,364	4,742,874	4,915,210	12,333	4,762	Katowice	Bielsko-Biała, Częstochowa, Katowice
Świętokrzyskie	PL.SK	PL84	PL33	1,280,727	1,297,477	1,317,441	11,711	4,521	Kielce	Kielce
Warmińsko-mazurskie	PL.WN	PL85	PL62	1,452,147	1,428,357	1,397,997	24,173	9,333	Olsztyn	Olsztyn, Suwałki
Wielkopolskie	PL.WP	PL86	PL41	3,447,441	3,351,915	3,236,618	29,827	11,516	Poznań	Kalisz, Konin, Leszno, Piła, Poznań
Zachodniopomorskie	PL.ZP	PL87	PL42	1,722,883	1,698,214	1,662,563	22,892	8,839	Szczecin	Koszalin, Szczecin
16 voivodships				38,511,824	38,230,080	37,879,105	312,680	120,726
HASC: Hierarchical administrative subdivision codes. If periods are replaced by hyphens, these are the same as the voivodship codes from ISO standard 3166-2. FIPS: Codes from FIPS PUB 10-4, a U.S. government standard. NUTS: Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics. Pop-2011: 2011-03-21 census. Pop-2002: 2002-05-20 census. Pop-1988: 1988-12-06 census (proleptic). Former: Former provinces included in the new province. In most cases, provincial boundaries have changed. I listed each old province under the new province that contains its capital and the greater part of its territory, as far as I could determine.

Postal codes: 

Poland uses five-digit postal codes, with a hyphen between the second and third digits. The codes don't correlate well with voivodship boundaries.

Further subdivisions:

See the Counties of Poland page.

Poland is divided into 16 województwa (sing. województwo: voivodships or provinces). The voivodships are divided into 308 powiaty (sing. powiat: districts, counties) and 65 cities of county right, sometimes referred to as rural districts and urban districts. These are subdivided into miasta (towns), which are further subdivided into gminy (sing. gmina: communes, wards). The powiaty were abolished in 1975, but reinstated in 1998.

Poland has also been divided into arbitrary NUTS-1 regions (regiony) and NUTS-3 subregions (podregiony) for statistical purposes. The NUTS scheme is hierarchical. The first four characters of a subregion code indicate which voivodship the subregion belongs to, and the first three characters of a voivodship code indicate which region the voivodship belongs to. Here are lists of these codes.

NUTS-1	Region
PL1	Centralny
PL4	Północno-zachodni
PL6	Północny
PL5	Południowo-zachodni
PL2	Południowy
PL3	Wschodni

 

NUTS-3	Subregion
PL343	Białostocki
PL311	Bialski
PL225	Bielski
PL613	Bydgosko-Toruński
PL228	Bytomski
PL312	Chełmsko-zamojski
PL121	Ciechanowsko-płocki
PL224	Częstochowski
PL621	Elbląski
PL623	Ełcki
PL634	Gdański
PL229	Gliwicki
PL431	Gorzowski
PL614	Grudziądzki
PL515	Jeleniogórski
PL416	Kaliski
PL22A	Katowicki
PL331	Kielecki
PL414	Koniński
PL422	Koszaliński
PL214	Krakowski
PL323	Krośnieński
PL516	Legnicko-Głogowski
PL417	Leszczyński
PL114	Łódzki
PL344	Łomżyński
PL314	Lubelski
PL213	Miasto Kraków
PL113	Miasto Łódź
PL415	Miasto Poznań
PL424	Miasto Szczecin
PL127	Miasto Warszawa
PL514	Miasto Wrocław
PL215	Nowosądecki
PL521	Nyski
PL622	Olsztyński
PL522	Opolski
PL122	Ostrołęcko-siedlecki
PL216	Oświęcimski
PL411	Pilski
PL115	Piotrkowski
PL418	Poznański
PL324	Przemyski
PL315	Puławski
PL128	Radomski
PL227	Rybnicki
PL325	Rzeszowski
PL332	Sandomiersko-jędrzejowski
PL116	Sieradzki
PL117	Skierniewicki
PL631	Słupski
PL22B	Sosnowiecki
PL423	Stargardzki
PL635	Starogardzki
PL345	Suwalski
PL425	Szczeciński
PL326	Tarnobrzeski
PL217	Tarnowski
PL633	Trójmiejski
PL22C	Tyski
PL517	Wałbrzyski
PL129	Warszawski-wschodni
PL12A	Warszawski-zachodni
PL615	Włocławski
PL518	Wrocławski
PL432	Zielonogórski

Territorial extent: 

Zachodniopomorskie contains the Polish part of Uznam Island (German name: Usedom).

The UN LOCODE page  for Poland lists locations in the country, some of them with their latitudes and longitudes, some with their ISO 3166-2 codes for their subdivisions. This information can be put together to approximate the territorial extent of subdivisions.

Origins of names of former provinces:

1. Białystok: Polish biały: white, stok: river
2. Bydgoszcz: Indo-European bredahe: swampy water
3. Elbląg: from Old Norwegian elf: river
4. Gdańsk: from Gothic Gutisk-andja: end of the Goths (Gdynia likewise)
5. Jelenia Góra: Polish jelen: stag, gora: mountain (cf. German name, from Hirsch: stag, Berg: mountain)
6. Kraków: man's name Krak, legendary founder of city
7. Zielona Góra: Polish zielona: green, gora: mountain (cf. German name, from grün: green, Berg: mountain)

Change history: 

1. 1815-05-03: Congress of Vienna created the Kingdom of Poland (sometimes called Congress Poland) and made it a semi-autonomous part of the Russian Empire.
2. 1861: Administrative reform in the Russian Empire divided Congress Poland into ten guberniy, or provinces. Their Russian names (transliterated) were Kalish, Kel'tsy, Lomzha, Lyublin, Petrokov, Plotsk, Radom, Sedlets, Suvalki, and Varshava.
3. In 1900, the area corresponding to modern Poland belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the German Empire, and the Russian Empire. The Austro-Hungarian Empire consisted of Austria (Cisleithania) and Hungary (Transleithania); Austria, in turn, was divided into provinces, parts of two of which (Galicia and Silesia) are now in Poland. The German-owned section of modern Poland lay within two states of the German Empire: the Kingdom of Prussia (Brandenburg, East Prussia, Pomerania, Posen, Silesia, and West Prussia provinces) and the Kingdom of Saxony (Bautzen province). The Russian part consisted of most of the Kingdom of Poland, and part of the guberniya of Grodno.
4. 1912: Kholm (Polish Chelm) guberniya formed from parts of Lyublin and Sedlets.
5. 1919-06-28: Treaty of Versailles signed. Poland's independence, which it had proclaimed on 1918-11-09, was recognized. Poland comprised most of Posen and West Prussia provinces from Germany, the Kingdom of Poland from Russia, and Galicia from Austria. Galicia was in fact divided into East and West Galicia. West Galicia became fully part of Poland; East Galicia was mandated to Poland but a plebiscite was planned for it. Germany retained East Prussia and a small section of West Prussia, an exclave separated from the rest of Germany by the "Polish Corridor." A 1,893-km.² section on the West Prussian Baltic shore around Danzig (Gdańsk) became the Free City of Danzig (Freie Stadt Danzig). The provisional border between Poland and Russia was the Curzon Line, soon wiped from the map in the Russo-Polish War (1919-20), which also gave Poland full sovereignty in East Galicia.
6. 1920-10-07: Poland occupied the southeastern part of Vilna, including the city of Vilnius.
7. 1921-03-18: Poland and Russia signed the Riga Treaty, dividing Byelorussia between them. Poland gained Grodno, most of Vilna, the western part of Volhynia, and a western fringe of Minsk. Brest-Litovsk was renamed to Brzešč nad Bugiem.
8. 1921-05-21: Plebiscite held in most of Upper Silesia (part of Silesia province, Prussia). A few eastern cantons voted for union with Poland, which took place in 1922. The divisions of Poland at this time were the former Prussian Bezirke (districts) of Bydgoszcz (Bromberg), Gdansk (Danzig), Kwidzyn (Marienwerder), and Poznan (Posen); the guberniy of Russian Poland, Kalisz (Kalish), Kielce (Kel'tsy), Łomża (Lomzha), Lublin (Lyublin), Piotrkow (Petrokov), Płock (Plotsk), Radom, Siedlce (Sedlets), Suwalki (Suvalki), and Warszawa (Varshava); the conquered sections of the West Russian guberniy of Grodno, Minsk, Vilna, and Wolyń (Volhynia); and Kraków (West Galicia) and Lwów (East Galicia). Names in parentheses are the prewar names of these divisions.
9. 1939-09-01: Germany invaded Poland, igniting World War II. The Soviet Union invaded Poland on 1939-09-17. By 1939-09-21, Poland had been divided between Germany and the Soviet Union. Germany also annexed the Free City of Danzig, which it renamed Hanseatic City of Danzig (Hansestadt Danzig) in 1940.
10. 1939-10-10: Over half of the Polish territory in Vilna guberniya restored to Lithuania.
11. 1945-07-16: Potsdam Conference began. It transferred large parts of the German provinces of Pomerania, Brandenburg, Silesia, East and West Prussia to Poland, except that the northern part of East Prussia became Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia. The new western border of Poland was called the Oder-Neisse Line, as it generally followed the course of the Oder and Neisse Rivers. A small area east of Ostrava was transferred from Poland to Czechoslovakia, splitting in two the city known as Cieszyn in Polish, Těšín in Czech, and Teschen in German. The Soviet Union recovered territory lost in the Russo-Polish War up to approximately the Curzon Line, annexing it to the republics of Byelorussia, Lithuania, and Ukraine. By 1946, Poland was organized into fourteen voivodships and two independent cities on the same administrative level as a voivodship. Boundaries were redrawn, so the correspondence is only fair, but Mazury is roughly East Prussia; Śląsk Dabrowski and Śląsk Dolny roughly match Silesia; Pomorze Zachodnie roughly matches Pomerania; and the Free City of Danzig merged with the new Gdańsk voivodship.

Voivodship	Population	Area(km.²)	Capital
Białystok	917,600	22,551	Białystok
Gdańsk	732,100	10,725	Sopot
Kielce	1,717,300	18,052	Kielce
Kraków	2,133,400	15,918	Kraków
Łódź	1,772,400	20,233	Łódź
Łódź [City]	496,900	212	Łódź
Lublin	1,889,700	27,741	Lublin
Mazury	351,800	19,319	Olsztyn
Pomorze	1,406,500	20,028	Bydgoszcz
Pomorze Zachodnie	892,600	30,251	Szczecin
Poznań	2,422,100	39,243	Poznań
Rzeszów	1,535,400	18,200	Rzeszów
Śląsk Dabrowski	2,823,400	15,369	Katowice
Śląsk Dolny	1,941,100	24,740	Wrocław
Warszawa	2,114,400	29,000	Pruszków
Warszawa [City]	478,800	140	Warszawa
16 divisions	23,929,800	311,722
Population: 1946 census

1. ~1949: Name of Mazury changed to Olsztyn; name of Pomorze changed to Bydgoszcz; name of Pomorze Zachodnie changed to Szczecin; name of Śląsk Dabrowski changed to Śląsk; name of Śląsk Dolny changed to Wrocław.
2. ~1955: Koszalin voivodship formed from parts of Bydgoszcz, Gdańsk, and Szczecin; Śląsk voivodship split into Katowice and Opole (with small annexations from Kielce and Wrocław); Zielona Góra voivodship formed from parts of Poznań and Wrocław; Kraków, Poznań, and Wrocław independent cities split from the voivodships of the same names; other border adjustments made; capital of Warszawa voivodship moved from Pruszków to Warszawa (Warsaw). After these changes, the list of voivodships was:

Voivodship	Population	Area(km.²)	Became
Białystok	1,177,000	23,167	Białystok, Łomża, Suwałki
Bydgoszcz	1,871,000	20,973	Bydgoszcz, Piła, Toruń, Włocławek
Gdańsk	1,393,000	10,924	Elbląg, Gdańsk, Słupsk
Katowice	3,585,000	9,389	Bielsko-Biała, Częstochowa, Katowice
Kielce	1,910,000	19,258	Częstochowa, Kielce, Piotrków, Radom, Tarnobrzeg
Koszalin	774,000	17,774	Koszalin, Piła, Słupsk
Kraków	2,159,000	15,408	Bielsko-Biała, Katowice, Kielce, Kraków, Nowy Sącz, Tarnów
Kraków City	540,200	230	Kraków
Łódź	1,675,000	16,710	Łódź, Piotrków, Płock, Sieradz, Skierniewice
Łódź City	750,400	212	Łódź
Lublin	1,920,000	25,047	Biała Podlaska, Chełm, Lublin, Siedlce, Tarnobrzeg, Zamość
Olsztyn	973,000	21,020	Elbląg, Olsztyn, Suwałki, Toruń
Opole	1,027,000	9,532	Katowice, Opole
Poznań	2,159,000	27,224	Kalisz, Konin, Leszno, Piła, Poznań
Poznań City	446,700	219	Poznań
Rzeszów	1,720,000	18,639	Krosno, Przemyśl, Rzeszów, Tarnobrzeg, Tarnów
Szczecin	872,000	12,744	Gorzów, Szczecin
Warszawa	2,483,000	29,080	Ciechanów, Ostrołęka, Płock, Radom, Siedlce, Skierniewice, Warszawa
Warszawa City	1,282,600	427	Warszawa
Wrocław	1,994,000	18,808	Jelenia Góra, Legnica, Leszno, Wrocław, Wałbrzych
Wrocław City	487,000	225	Wrocław
Zielona Góra	866,000	14,720	Gorzów, Legnica, Leszno, Zielona Góra
22 divisions	32,064,900	311,730
Voivodships: except for those whose name says "City," which are independent cities. Population: 1972 estimate Capital: Name of capital is the same as that of voivodship. Became: List of post-1975 voivodships having significant territory in common with this division.

1. 1975-06-01: Administrative reform changed the seventeen voivodships into the 49 listed below, and eliminated the districts. There were also three cities with voivodship status (Kraków, Łódź, and Warszawa). In most sources, these three cities are included in the voivodships of the same names.

Voivodship	ISO	FIPS	Population	Area(km.²)	Area(mi.²)	Adjectival	German
Biała Podlaska	BP	PL23	304,500	5,348	2,065	bialskopodlaskie
Białystok	BK	PL24	690,300	10,055	3,882	białostockie
Bielsko-Biała	BB	PL25	895,300	3,704	1,430	bielskie	Bielitz
Bydgoszcz	BY	PL26	1,106,600	10,349	3,996	bydgoskie	Bromberg
Chełm	CH	PL27	246,200	3,866	1,493	chełmskie	Cholm
Ciechanów	CI	PL28	427,000	6,362	2,456	ciechanowskie
Częstochowa	CZ	PL29	776,100	6,182	2,387	częstochowskie	Tschenstochau
Elbląg	EL	PL30	476,600	6,103	2,356	elbląskie	Elbing
Gdańsk	GD	PL31	1,423,300	7,394	2,855	gdańskie	Danzig
Gorzów	GO	PL32	498,300	8,484	3,276	gorzowskie	Landsberg
Jelenia Góra	JG	PL33	517,000	4,378	1,690	jeleniogórskie	Hirschberg
Kalisz	KL	PL34	708,300	6,512	2,514	kaliskie	Kalisch
Katowice	KA	PL35	3,968,300	6,650	2,568	katowickie	Kattowitz
Kielce	KI	PL36	1,126,000	9,211	3,556	kieleckie
Konin	KN	PL37	467,600	5,139	1,984	konińskie
Koszalin	KO	PL38	504,200	8,470	3,270	koszalińskie	Köslin
Kraków	KR	PL39	1,227,800	3,254	1,256	krakowskie	Krakau
Krosno	KS	PL40	491,800	5,702	2,202	krośnieńskie
Legnica	LG	PL41	512,000	4,037	1,559	legnickie	Liegnitz
Leszno	LE	PL42	384,500	4,154	1,604	leszczyńskie	Lissa
Łódź	LD	PL43	1,142,700	1,523	588	łódzkie
Łomża	LO	PL44	345,600	6,684	2,581	łomżyńskie
Lublin	LU	PL45	1,013,400	6,792	2,622	lubelskie
Nowy Sącz	NS	PL46	692,200	5,576	2,153	nowosądeckie	Neusandez
Olsztyn	OL	PL47	748,500	12,327	4,759	olsztyńskie	Allenstein
Opole	OP	PL48	1,014,900	8,535	3,295	opolskie	Oppeln
Ostrołęka	OS	PL49	395,000	6,498	2,509	ostrołęckie
Piła	PI	PL50	478,000	8,205	3,168	pilskie	Schneidemühl
Piotrków	PT	PL51	642,000	6,266	2,419	piotrkowskie	Petrikau
Płock	PL	PL52	515,400	5,117	1,976	płockie
Poznań	PO	PL53	1,327,900	8,151	3,147	poznańskie	Posen
Przemyśl	PR	PL54	405,100	4,437	1,713	przemyskie
Radom	RA	PL55	748,300	7,294	2,816	radomskie
Rzeszów	RZ	PL56	717,400	4,397	1,698	rzeszowskie
Siedlce	SE	PL57	649,300	8,499	3,281	siedleckie
Sieradz	SI	PL58	408,000	4,869	1,880	sieradzkie
Skierniewice	SK	PL59	418,200	3,960	1,529	skierniewickie
Słupsk	SL	PL60	410,400	7,453	2,878	słupskie	Stolp
Suwałki	SU	PL61	466,300	10,490	4,050	suwalskie
Szczecin	SZ	PL62	967,300	9,981	3,854	szczecińskie	Stettin
Tarnobrzeg	TG	PL63	596,400	6,283	2,426	tarnobrzeskie
Tarnów	TA	PL64	666,000	4,151	1,603	tarnowskie
Toruń	TO	PL65	655,700	5,348	2,065	toruńskie	Thorn
Wałbrzych	WB	PL66	741,200	4,168	1,609	wałbrzyskie	Waldenburg
Warszawa	WA	PL67	2,419,100	3,788	1,463	warszawskie	Warschau
Włocławek	WL	PL68	428,900	4,402	1,700	włocławskie
Wrocław	WR	PL69	1,126,300	6,287	2,427	wrocławskie	Breslau
Zamość	ZA	PL70	489,800	6,980	2,695	zamojskie
Zielona Góra	ZG	PL71	657,400	8,868	3,424	zielonogórskie	Grünberg
49 divisions			38,038,400	312,683	120,727
ISO: Codes from ISO 3166-2. FIPS: Codes from FIPS PUB 10-4. Population: 1989 census Area(km.²): Square kilometers Area(mi.²): Square miles Adjectival: In Polish text, the voivodship name will often appear in this adjectival form. German: German name of capital; used officially for province during periods of German occupation. Capitals: Voivodships had the same names as their capitals, except for Gorzów (capital, Gorzów Wielkopolski) and Piotrków (Piotrków Trybunalski).

1. 1998-07-27: President Kwaśniewski signed a bill reorganizing Poland from 49 voivodships to sixteen. Subsequently, on 1998-08-07, the subdivision of the country into 308 counties (powiaty), plus 65 cities with county rights, was decided. The new divisions were implemented on 1999-01-01.
2. 2004-05-01: Poland joined the European Union.

Other names of subdivisions:

1. Dolnośląskie: Lower Silesia (rough English equivalent)
2. Małopolskie: Little Poland (rough English equivalent)
3. Mazowieckie: Masovian (rough English equivalent)
4. Podkarpackie: Subcarpathian (rough English equivalent)
5. Pomorskie: Pomerania (rough English equivalent)
6. Śląskie: Silesia (rough English equivalent)
7. Świętokrzyskie: Holy Cross (rough English equivalent)
8. Wielkopolskie: Greater Poland (rough English equivalent)
9. Zachodniopomorskie: Western Pomerania (rough English equivalent)

Former subdivisions:

1. Gdańsk: Dantzig (French); Danzica (Italian); Danzig (obsolete)
2. Kraków: Cracovia (Italian, Spanish); Cracóvia (Portuguese); Cracovie (French); Cracow (variant); Krakova (Finnish)
3. Łódź (Polish); Lodsch (German); Lodz (English, German-variant)
4. Lublin: Lublino (Italian); Люблин (Russian)
5. Poznań: Posen (German)
6. Szczecin: Stettin (English, German); Stettino (Italian)
7. Warszawa: Stołeczne Warszawskie (formal); Varsavia (Italian); Varsova (Finnish); Varsovia (Spanish); Varsóvia (Portuguese); Varsovie (French); Warsaw (variant); Варшава (Russian)
8. Wrocław: Breslavia (Italian)

Sources: 

1. [1] Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States 1992. Europa Publications Ltd., London, 1992.
2. [2] Concise Statistical Yearbook of Poland 1991. Central Statistical Office, Warsaw, 1992.
3. [3] Ludność w gminach  (Population in municipalities). Central Statistical Office (retrieved 2013-01-12).