Poland's area decreased by 68 hectares compared to the erstwhile year - according to the latest study of the Central Statistical Office. Most of its territory has lost its Western Pomeranian war. Analysts besides explain how our country's borders have been shrinking somewhat.
From data Central Statistical Office it appears that Poland's area in 2025 is 31 393 293 hectares. This is 68 hectares little than a year earlier, erstwhile the territory of the country included 31 393 361 ha.
A full decrease in surface area occurred in 11 voivodships, in the another 5 voivodships the area increased - from 1 ha in the voivodships. Lublin Up to 11 ha in war. Świętokrzyskie.
The area of Poland is smaller. The CSO indicates the causes
The largest failure was recorded in the voivodship West Pomeranianwho "lost" 35 hectares. According to GUS, in the case of this region and Pomeranian voivodship changes arise from adaptation of boundaries administrative units located along the Baltic coast to the updated baseline of the territorial sea.
It's a consequence. regulations of the Council of Ministers of January 13, 2017, which specifies the course of the basic line, the territorial sea border and the borders of the adjacent region of the Republic of Poland.
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In the another 9 voivodships, where there were besides slight changes in the surface (both affirmative and negative), the reason was not a change in boundaries, but a change in the surface area. technical data update.
Main Office for Geodesy and Cartography (GUGiK) conducts an yearly process of aligning the State Border registry (PRG) with the current records of land and buildings that supply territory olderies. This results in tiny shifts resulting from more detailed measurements, cartographic corrections or codification of documentation.
There are less and less Poles. fresh CSO report
W GUS report the cities where the population has fallen were besides informed. The population has decreased most Boat (-6 322 people) and Bydgoszcz (-2,391). In turn, the biggest increase passed Kraków (+2 967 people), Lesznovola (+434 people), Gdansk (+280 people) and Warsaw (+2 246 people).
CSO indicates that population in cities It's been decreasing for respective years.. A akin trend has been observed in agrarian areas since 2021. In fresh years, the population of cities has fallen by 127,470 people and the villages by 19,951 people.
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The main origin affecting population decline in fresh years remains negative natural growth, continuing continuously since 2013.
According to GUS data, in 2024 it was registered close to 157 000 more deaths than births. As a result, the rate of natural growth fell to -4.2 per 1,000 inhabitants, which means a decrease of 0.6 percent points compared to the erstwhile year.
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