Brest Region , also known as Brest Oblast , Brest Voblasts or Brestchyna , is one of the six regions of Belarus . Its administrative center is Brest . Other major cities in the region include Baranavichy , and Pinsk . As of 2024, it has a population of 1,308,569.
43-574: It is located in the southwestern part of Belarus, bordering the Podlasie and Lublin voivodeships of Poland on the west, the Volyn Oblast and Rivne Oblast of Ukraine on the south, the Grodno Region and Minsk Region on the north, and Gomel Region on the east. The region covers a total area of 32,800 km², about 15.7% of the national total. The westernmost point of Belarus
86-552: A World Heritage Site ) is in Podlaskie. There are four National Parks ( Białowieża , Biebrza , Narew and Wigry ), three Landscape Parks ( Knyszyń Forest , Łomża and Suwałki ), 88 nature reserves, and 15 protected landscape areas . The voivodeship constitutes a part of the ecologically clean area known as "the Green Lungs of Poland". Podlaskie has a Warm Summer Continental or Hemiboreal climate (Dfb) according to
129-707: A "cucumber capital", "strawberry capital", "carrot capital", etc. As of 2018, agricultural organizations and farmers kept 861,600 cattle (including 301,100 cows), 491,100 pigs, 10,000 horses, 19,500 sheep, 7,605,000 poultry. In 2017, all types of farms in the region produced 218,700 tons of livestock and poultry meat (in slaughter weight), 1,605,000 tons of milk (second place among the regions of Belarus) and 606.8 million eggs (second place). 52°22′57″N 25°11′59″E / 52.38250°N 25.19972°E / 52.38250; 25.19972 Podlaskie Voivodeship Podlaskie Voivodeship ( Polish : Województwo podlaskie [vɔjɛˈvut͡stfɔ pɔˈdlaskʲɛ] )
172-519: A farm was 10.35 ha. Agriculture in Podlaskie Voivodeship is characterized by a high share of agricultural land in good agricultural condition (99.3%) - these include arable land, permanent crops, home gardens, permanent meadows and permanent pastures. 98.9 percent from all land in agricultural holdings, i.e. 1,254.3 thous. ha, belongs to individual farms. Podlaskie Voivodeship has the highest percentage of grassland among all voivodships of
215-624: A varied landscape, shaped in the north by Baltic glaciation, the rest by Middle Poland glaciation. The highest peaks are in the north (Rowelska Top - 298 m), where the landscape is dominated by a hilly lake district. Lakeland: Zachodniosuwalskie, Wschodniosuwalskie, Ełckie) and Sandrowy lake district (Augustów Plain) in the central and southern pre-glacial plains prevail (plateaus: Kolneńska, Białystok, Wysokomazowiecka, Drohiczynska, Sokólskie Hills, Międzyrzecko łomżyński, Plain Bielsko), varied in topography with small basins and river valleys. Kurpie lies on
258-615: Is a voivodeship ( province ) in northeastern Poland . The name of the province refers to the historical region of Podlachia (in Polish, Podlasie ), and part of its territory corresponds to that region. The capital and largest city is Białystok . It borders on Masovian Voivodeship to the west, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship to the northwest, Lublin Voivodeship to the south, the Belarusian oblasts of Grodno and Brest to
301-461: Is affected by the cold fronts which come from Scandinavia and Siberia . The average temperature in the winter ranges from -15 °C (5 °F) to -4 °C (24.8 °F). One of the cities located in Podlaskie - Suwalki - is called as The Polish North Pole, due to it is coldest temperature average around Poland. Podlaskie Voivodeship is divided into 17 counties ( powiats ): 3 city counties, those being Białystok , Suwałki , and Łomża . It
344-767: Is also divided into 14 land counties, which these 14 counties are further divided into 118 gminas . Metropolitan Białystok was designated by the Voivodeship in the Regulation No. 52/05 of 16 May 2005 in order to help economically develop the region. In 2006, the metropolitan area's population was 450,254 inhabitants. It covers an area of 1.521 km ². For one km , there are about 265 people. Among urban residents there are more women - 192 thousand. For every 100 men, there are 108 women on average. The municipalities adjacent to Białystok are slowly losing their agricultural character, becoming residential suburban neighborhoods. Religion in Podlaskie Voivodeship (2021) Podlaskie
387-499: Is increasing continuously since the 1950s (17.1% in 1950, 70.5% in 2017). Of the major nationalities living in the Brest Region, 1,262,600 are Belarusians (85%), 128,700 (8.6%) are Russians , 57,100 (3.8%) are Ukrainians , and 27,100 (1.8%) are Poles . 53.7% of the population speak Belarusian and 42.6% speak Russian as their native language. Brest is the province with the highest birth rate in all of Belarus. As of 2008,
430-1034: Is rich in Baroque churches and monasteries, most notably in Różanystok , Wigry , Sejny , Tykocin , Drohiczyn , Bielsk Podlaski, Siemiatycze , Choroszcz , although there are also churches in other styles, including the Gothic St. Michael and John the Baptist Cathedral in Łomża and Saint John the Baptist church in Wizna , the Renaissance Old Parish Church in Białystok and the adjacent Białystok Cathedral , and Neoclassical Co-cathedral of St. Alexander in Suwałki . The Catholic Sanctuary of
473-631: Is situated in Kamyenyets District near the town of Vysokaye . 2.7% of the territory is covered by Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park , 9.8% is covered by 17 wildlife preserves of national importance. It is often dubbed the Western gateway to Belarus . Geographically, the Brest Region belongs to the area known as Polesia . The area of the region was part of the Second Polish Republic from 1921 until 1939 largely as
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#1732780243030516-399: Is the land of the confluence of cultures – Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Jewish and Tatar – and is indicative of the ethnic territories limits. Eastward of Podlaskie lie historic Polish lands, which are now part of Ukraine and Belarus and Lithuania . Today, mainly Polish and Ruthenian ( Ukrainian and Belarusian ) are spoken in Podlaskie, while Lithuanian is preserved by
559-619: The Köppen climate classification system, which is characterized by warm temperatures during summer and long and frosty winters. It is substantially different from most of the other Polish lowlands. The region is one of the coldest in Poland, with the average temperature in January being −5 °C (23 °F). The average temperature in a year is 7 °C (45 °F). The number of frost days ranges from 50 to 60, with frost from 110 to 138 days and
602-621: The Osowiec and Łomża fortresses. There are numerous World War II memorials scattered across the voivodeship, including memorials at the sites of German and Soviet massacres of Poles, and Holocaust memorials. The ruins of the bunker of Captain Władysław Raginis in Góra Strękowa are preserved as a memorial to the heroic Polish defense in the Battle of Wizna . The chief universities of
645-570: The Polesie Voivodeship , when it was joined to the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic . Northeastern part of it was administered as part of Nowogródek Voivodeship . The Brest Region has a population of 1,380,391, about 14,7% of the national total. About 47.2% of the region's population are men, and the remaining 52.8% are women. Number of inhabitants per 1 km2 is 43. Share of urban population
688-561: The historic region of Poland called Podlasie , or in Latin known as Podlachia . There are two opinions regarding the origin of the region's name . People often derive it from the Proto-Slavic les or las , meaning "forest", i.e., it is an area "by the wood(s)" or an "area of forests", which would bring Podlasie close in meaning to adjacent Polesia . This theory has been questioned, as it does not properly take into consideration
731-478: The Brest Region are: There are about 70 travel agencies in Brest Region, most of them provide both agent and operator activities. Main tourist attractions in the region are Belovezhskaya Puscha and Brest Fortress . As of 2017, the industrial output of the region amounted to Br 10,578,000 (~US$ 5,300 million), or 11.2% of the Belarusian industrial output. Food industry is the leading economy sphere in
774-679: The Brest Region arrived in Minsk, 2,219 — in the Minsk Region, 2,118 — in the Hrodna Region, less than 1,000 — in every other region. The region was formed in 1939 after reunification of Western Belarus and the Byelorussian SSR . Today it comprises 16 districts ( raions ), 225 rural councils ( selsoviets ), 20 cities, 5 city municipalities, 9 urban-type settlements , and 2178 villages. The sixteen raions ( districts ) of
817-571: The Jagiellons . Hence pod Lachem would mean "near the Poles", "along the border with Poland". The Lithuanian name of the region, Palenkė , has exactly this meaning. The voivodeship was created on January 1, 1999, out of the former Białystok and Łomża Voivodeships and the eastern half of the former Suwałki Voivodeship , pursuant to the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998. It has
860-776: The Presentation of Virgin Mary in Różanystok , Sanctuary of Our Lady of Studzieniczna in Augustów and Christ's Transfiguration Orthodox church on the Grabarka Holy Mount are important pilgrimage destinations. The Mannerist-Baroque Tykocin Synagogue in Tykocin, one of the best preserved historic synagogues in Poland, and one of the few not destroyed by Nazi Germany, houses a museum. The largest museum dedicated to
903-558: The REGON register in the year 2002 there were around 95 thousand companies registered in the Podlaskie region (97% of them in the private sector), dealing with; Arable land constitutes around 60% of the total area of the region – most of which is ploughland (around 40%), forests, meadows and pastures. Over 120 000 farms are registered, roughly half of which are small farms of 1–5 ha and medium-sized farms of 5–10 ha. The smaller farms prefer intensive production (gardening, orcharding), whereas
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#1732780243030946-700: The area belonged to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania until 1569, and the southern part of it—until 1795. A better variant of the latter theory holds that the name originates from the period when the territory was within the Trakai Voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania , along the border with Mazovia Province, primarily a fief of the Poland of the Piasts , and later part of the Kingdom of Poland of
989-677: The birth rate was 12.0 per 1000 and death rate was 13.4 per 1000. In 2017, 12.4% of live births were to unmarried women (average in Belarus — 18.1%). As of 2018, share of the population under working age was 19.3% (average in Belarus — 17.9%), of working age — 55.7% (average in Belarus — 57.2%), over working age — 25% (average in Belarus — 25.1%). In 2015—2017, the region had a positive net migration rate for international migration (+3,209 in 2015, +1,771 in 2016, +1,357 in 2017) and negative — for internal migration (-6,294 in 2015, -3,659 in 2016, -1,836 in 2017). In 2017, 6,944 people which departed from
1032-495: The country (almost 20% of the area). This is used to develop dairy and beef cattle farming. Podlaskie has the largest cattle stock in Poland (the average herd size in 2016 is 37.9). In terms of milk producing, the voivodeship, together with the Masovian Voivodeship, ranks first in the country. Podlaskie Voivodeship receive about 20% of the total production in the country. Cereals is an important crops grown in
1075-697: The dominant religions in Podlaskie Voivodeship are Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. The voivodeship's seat is the city of Białystok . Like all voivodeships, it has a government-appointed Provincial Governor ( Polish : wojewoda ), as well as an elected Regional Assembly ( sejmik ) and of the executive elected by that assembly, headed by the voivodeship marshal ( marszałek województwa ). Administrative powers and competences are statutorily divided between these authorities. The voivodeship contains 3 cities and 37 towns. These are listed below in descending order of population (according to official figures for 2019) Towns: The Gross domestic product (GDP) of
1118-450: The duration of snow cover from 90 to 110 days. Mean annual rainfall values oscillate around 550 millimetres (21.7 in), and the vegetation period lasts 200 to 210 days. Podlaskie is the coldest region of Poland, located in the very northeast of the country near the border with Belarus and Lithuania . The region has a continental climate which is characterized by high temperatures during summer and long and frosty winters. The climate
1161-540: The east, the Lithuanian Counties of Alytus and Marijampolė to the northeast, and the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia to the north. The province was created on 1 January 1999, pursuant to the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998, from the former Białystok and Łomża Voivodeships and the eastern half of the former Suwałki Voivodeship . The voivodeship takes its name from
1204-600: The history of the region is the Podlaskie Museum in Białystok with branches in Białystok, Bielsk Podlaski, Choroszcz, Supraśl, Tykocin and Turośń Kościelna . Białystok is home to the Sybir Memorial Museum, the main Polish museum devoted to history of Russian deportations of Poles to Siberia . There is a museum dedicated to Polish poet Maria Konopnicka at her birthplace in Suwałki . There are also
1247-434: The larger ones engage in cattle and crop production. The cattle-raising farms are mainly oriented towards milk production. In June 2015, the total area of land in agricultural holdings in the Podlaskie Voivodeship amounted to 1,243.3 thousand hectares. ha. Agricultural land occupied 1058.3 thousand. ha, forests and forest land - 134.7 thous. ha, while the remaining land - 50.4 thous. ha. The average area of agricultural land in
1290-435: The percentage of females in the total population amounted to 51.3 percent. A statistical inhabitant of Podlaskie was 37.7 years old, whereas in 2008 – 37.5 years old. The latest population projection predicts a consistent decrease in the population in Podlaskie Voivodeship. In the next 26 years, it will decrease by 117 thousand persons due to the ageing population. Population according to 2002 census: According to 2021 census
1333-470: The province was around 11 billion euros in 2018, accounting for 2.2% of Polish economic output. GDP per capita adjusted for purchasing power was €15,200 or 50% of the EU average in the same year. The GDP per employee was 57% of the EU average. Podlaskie Voivodeship is the province with the 5th lowest GDP per capita in Poland. The following are general economic indicators for Podlaskie Voivodeship: According to
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1376-1306: The region (47.6% of the region's industrial output). The biggest industrial plants in the region are "Savushkin produkt" (dairy products), "Santa Bremor" (fish products), Brestgazoapparat (gas equipment, including "Gefest" cookers; all three are situated in Brest ), "Pinskdrev" in Pinsk (furniture, matches and other wood products), "Polesie" in Kobryn (toys and plastic products). Other major factories are machine tool plant "Atlant", cotton factory, military jet fighters repair plant (all three are situated in Baranavichy (Baranovichi) ), sugar plant in Zhabinka , "Polesie" textile and garment factory in Pinsk , "Ivacevichidrev" wood products plant in Ivacevichi , "Granite" quarry in Mikashevichi , "Belsolod" malt factory in Ivanava (the only such plant in Belarus). Food factories in
1419-438: The region and themainly: wheat , rye , barley , oat , triticale , cereal mixtures, grain maize, millet , buckwheat . Other crops grown by farmers include, among others, potatoes , oil seeds , forage plants (green fodder , carrots , beets , turnips or alfalfa ). The natural conditions of the region are conducive to the development of organic growing, which at present is practised by around 100 farms. Over 600 farms in
1462-732: The region offer agritourist services. The Białowieża Forest is a UNESCO World Heritage Site . There are five Historic Monuments of Poland in the voivodeship: There are several castles and palaces in the region, including the Branicki Palace and Lubomirski Palace in Białystok, Royal Castle in Tykocin , Branicki Summer Palace in Choroszcz , Ossoliński Palace in Rudka , and Buchholtz Palace in Supraśl . There are two spa towns in
1505-789: The region produced 153.9 thousand tons of meat and offal in 2017, 90 thousand tons of sausage products, 29.7 thousand tons of meat semi-finished products, 71.8 tons of fish and semi-finished products (including canned fish), 551.9 thousand tons of whole milk products, 47.2 thousand tons of cottage cheese , 66.1 thousand tons of cheese , 21.3 thousand tons of butter , 108.2 thousand tons of flour, 2.5 million decalitres of beer and 4.3 million decalitres of distilled alcoholic beverages. Textile and garment factories produced 56,361 thousand m of fabrics in 2017, 994 thousand m of carpets, 5.9 million pieces of all types of knitwear, 1.9 million pieces of outerwear (except knitwear), 28.4 million pairs of socks and similar hosiery, 623 thousand shoes. Electrical plants in
1548-591: The region produced 242.2 thousand electric engines (alternating current), 4800 transformers, 899 thousand lamps. Brest lamp factory is producing incandescent light bulbs , 2 factories are engaged in production of diodes and printed circuit boards . Byarozaŭskaja (Berezovskaya) thermal power plant in Byaroza District is one of the biggest power plants in Belarus (1095 MW , 4.8 GW·h annually). As of 2018, it had 4 power generating units with combined cycle gas turbines . As of 2017, total cultivated area in
1591-624: The region was 930,000 hectares , including 844,400 hectares of land used by agricultural organizations (mainly state-owned), 17,900 hectares — by the registered farmers, and 67,700 hectares — by personal farms of the population. 383,800 hectares of fields were used to grow cereals , 52,800 — rapeseeds , 21,800 — sugar beets , 5,700 — flax , 56,300 — potatoes , 12,700 — vegetables , 392,800 — feed crops. Big agricultural organizations harvest almost all cereals, flax, sugar beets, rapeseeds and feed crops, while farmers (both registered and not) harvest more than 90% of potatoes (1,144,400 tons of 1,266,200 in
1634-499: The region) and vegetables (409,400 tons of 439,200 in the region). Average cereal yield in the region in 2017 was 3,480 kg per hectare (average in Belarus — 3,330), sugar beet yield — 43,900 kg per hectare (average in Belarus — 49,900), flax fiber yield — 1,160 kg per hectare (average in Belarus — 920). Due to warm mild climate and personal activity, the region leads in the production of many fruits, vegetables and berries in Belarus. Several villages are widely known as
1677-481: The richness of the animal world. Visitors can also see moose, wolves, lynx and bison living in the Białowieża Forest and Knyszyń Forest . Podlaskie has the lowest population density of the sixteen Polish voivodeships, and its largely unspoiled nature is one of its chief assets. Around 30% of the area of the voivodeship is under legal protection. The Polish part of the Białowieża Forest biosphere reserve (also
1720-470: The small but compact Lithuanian minority concentrated in the Sejny County. At the end of 2009 in Podlaskie Voivodeship there were 1,189,700 inhabitants, 3.1 percent of the total population of Poland. The average density of the population, the number of the population per 1 km2, was 59. The urban population in the same period was 60.2 percent of the total number of inhabitants of the voivodeship, where
1763-488: The voivodeship: Augustów and Supraśl . Augustów and Rajgród are popular summer destinations owing to their lakes. Białystok is known for its public parks and gardens, including the Branicki Garden and Planty Park . Tykocin and Supraśl are primary examples of preserved historic small towns in the voivodeship. The Baroque town halls in Białystok and Bielsk Podlaski are home to local museums. The voivodeship
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1806-524: The vowel shifts "a" > "e" > "i" in various Slavic languages (in fact, it mixes vowels from different languages). Heavily wooded Podlaskie is home to the primeval Białowieża Forest and National Park, the habitat of the European wisent bison and tarpan . A second view holds that the term comes from the expression pod Lachem , i.e., "under the Poles" (see: Lechia ). Some claim it to mean "under Polish rule", which does not seem historically sound, as
1849-489: The west edge of the outwash plains. Sand, gravel, clay, moraine, and in the valleys and basins of the rivers silt, sand and river peat predominate on the surface. The vast forests ( Białowieża , Augustów , Knyszyń , Kurpiowska ), some of which are the only ones in Europe to have retained their original character, contain a unique wealth of flora and fauna. The vegetation of the region is extremely diverse, which contributes to
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