This article describes one of the current regional administrative subdivisions of Poland. If you are looking for information on the general historical region to which it corresponds, please see the article Greater Poland.
The Greater Poland Voivodship (in Polishwojewództwo wielkopolskie) is an administrative region or voivodship of western-central Poland It was created on 1 January 1999 out of the former Poznan, Kalisz, Konin, Pila and Leszno voivodships as a result of Local Government Reorganization Act of 1998. The voivodship's name recalls the region's traditional name of Greater Poland (Wielkopolska).
It is second in area and third in population among the country's sixteen voivodships, with 29,826 km˛ and 3.4 million inhabitants. Its principal cities are:
Its principal cities are Poznan, Leszno, Kalisz and Gniezno. Most of the historical region (except some southwestern communities) is included the Greater Polandvoivodship (administrative province) created in 1999.
WielkopolskieVoivodship occupies a leading position in Polish agriculture despite the fact that natural conditions (soil, climate) do not differ from the average conditions predominating in the country.
WielkopolskieVoivodship dominates in the production of sugar beets, which were cultivated on an area corresponding to 18.3% of the total area of this crop in the country, while harvests accounted for 19.9% of total harvests.
In regard to per ha yields of the main crops, the region is one of the leaders in the country, with a level exceeding the national average more than one dozen percent.
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