Lower Silesian Voivodeship
Lower Silesian Voivodeship is one of the 16 Voivodeships of Poland. It can be found in the south-west Poland and in west Silesia (called Lower Silesia). The capital city is Wrocław.
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Województwo dolnośląskie | |
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.png) Location within Poland | |
 Division into counties | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Capital | Wrocław |
| Counties* | List
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| Area | |
| • Total | 19,946 km2 (7,701 sq mi) |
| Population (2006) | |
| • Total | 2,884,248 |
| • Density | 144.603/km2 (374.520/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 2,047,151 |
| • Rural | 837,097 |
| Car plates | D |
| Website | http://www.umwd.pl/ |
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The voivodeship was created on 1 January 1999 out of the former Wrocław, Legnica, Wałbrzych and Jelenia Góra Voivodeships.
Karkonosze National Park and Stołowe Mountains National Park are both in Lower Silesian Voivodeship.
Lower Silesian Voivodeship Media
The oldest known Polish written sentence in the Book of Henryków, now held by the Archdiocesan Museum in Wrocław
Early 20th-century view of the mausoleum of the last Piast dukes in the Church of St. John the Baptist in Legnica
Wrocław, Ratusz we Wrocławiu
Śnieżka - the highest peak of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship
