Wołyń Voivodeship (1921–1939)
| Wołyń Voivodeship Województwo wołyńskie | |||||||||
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| Voivodeship of Poland | |||||||||
| 1921–1939 | |||||||||
Wołyń Voivodeship (red) on the map of Second Polish Republic | |||||||||
| Capital | Łuck | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• 1921 | 30,274 km2 (11,689 sq mi) | ||||||||
• 1939 | 35,754 km2 (13,805 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1921 | 1,437,907 | ||||||||
• 1931 | 2,085,600 | ||||||||
| Government | |||||||||
| • Type | Voivodeship | ||||||||
| Voivodes | |||||||||
• Mar-Jul 1921 | Stanisław Jan Krzakowski | ||||||||
• 1938-1939 | Aleksander Hauke-Nowak | ||||||||
| Historical era | Interwar period | ||||||||
• Established | 19 February 1921 | ||||||||
| 17 September 1939 | |||||||||
| Political subdivisions | 11 powiats | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Ukraine | ||||||||
Wołyń Voivodeship or Wołyń Province was an administrative region of interwar Poland (1918–1939) with an area of 35,754 km², 22 cities, and provincial capital in Łuck.
The province was divided into 11 counties (powiaty). The area comprised part of the historical region of Volhynia.
At the end of World War II, at the insistence of Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union during the 1943 Tehran Conference, Poland's borders were redrawn by the Allies. The province's Polish population was forcibly resettled westward; and the province's territory was incorporated into the Soviet Union's Ukrainian SSR.
Since 1991 it has been divided between sovereign Ukraine's Rivne and Volyn Oblasts.