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    • GEODETIC AREA (DATA OF THE HEAD OFFICE OF GEODESY AND CARTOGRAPHY)
      • Area
      • Geodetic and leveling area, registered land (short-term data)
      • Geodetic area of the country according to the directions of use
      • Geodetic area of the country according to the directions of use (short-term data)
      • Land use area of the country
      • Share of built-up and urbanized land and developed agricultural land in the total area
      • Share of geodetic area of the country according to the directions of use (short-term data)
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Category
TERRITORIAL DIVISION (K1)
Group
GEODETIC AREA (DATA OF THE HEAD OFFICE OF GEODESY AND CARTOGRAPHY) (G441)
Subgroup
Area (P1410)
Years
1995-2023
Data accessibility level
Gminas
Last update
09/04/2024
  • Category description
    Information about territorial division is updated as of 31 December every reported year on the basis of the official register TERYT - TERC99; area data are updated as of January 1, based on data from PRG; population data is updated as of December 31, based on balances based on the results of the 2021 census.
  • Group description
    Geodetic area, data of the Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography. Comparing to the previous year, area of Poland increased by 121,106 ha (from 31,272,030 ha to 31,393,136 ha). This value is the balance of the increase observed in pomorskie voivodship (+121,109 ha) and the decrease at the level of 3 ha in zachodniopomorskie voivodship. Change in the area of the country is related, as in previous year, to adjusting the boundaries of territorial units to the baseline of the territorial sea, resulting from the Regulation of the Council of Ministers of 13 January 2017 on the detailed course of the baseline, the external border of the territorial sea and the external border of the adjacent zone of the Republic of Poland (Journal of Laws of 2017, item 183). The effect of the implementation of regulation mentioned above is the introduction of appropriate changes to the land and building register (hereinafter: EGiB), which, in accordance with section 6(1)(3) of the Regulation of the Council of Ministers of 16 July 2021 on the national register of boundaries and areas of territorial division units of the country (Journal of Laws of 2021, item 1373). is the basis for updating the data of the national register of boundaries and areas of territorial division units of the country (hereinafter: PRG). Changes in this regard were introduced in 2022, and mainly consisted in including the Bay of Puck and part of the Bay of Gdańsk in internal sea waters, dividing these waters and assigning them in the EGiB to territorial division units adjacent to them. As a result, within the borders of pomorskie voivodship, the greatest changes were made to pucki powiat (+28,732 ha) and nowodworski powiat (+24,003 ha) and cities with powiat status: Gdańsk (+41,713 ha), Gdynia (+25,631 ha) and Sopot (+1,040 ha).
  • Subgroup description
    In 2006 Head Office of Land Surveying and Cartography initiated works of calculation of territorial units' area with the use of new method, based on the data from the computer database of the State Register of Borders and Area of Units of Administrative Division. Some of the units are influenced at the same time by the new calculation methods and the territorial changes. Thus it is impossible to get their current area using their area of previous year and the information on the changes of their borders.
    Changes of area:
    - The period since 2nd January 2005 till 1st January 2006 - differences between areas of 96% of gminas that affecting areas of voivodships and powiats. The territory of Poland also decreased by 187 ha;
    - The period since 2nd January 2006 till 1st January 2007 differences between areas of 10% of gminas that affected about 16% of powiats areas and influenced the territory of four voivodships. The territory of Poland also decreased by 377 ha;
    - The period since 2nd January 2007 till 1st January 2008 - differences between areas of about 10% of gminas that affected about 20% of powiats areas and influenced the territory of eight voivodships;
    - The period since 2nd January 2008 till 1st January 2009 - differences between areas of about 7% of gminas that affected about 18% of powiats areas and influenced the territory of eight voivodships;
    - The period since 2nd January 2009 till 1st January 2010 - differences between areas of about 8% of gminas that affected about 18% of powiats, cities with powiat status and eleven voivodships. The territory of Poland also increased by 29 ha.
    The period since 2nd January 2010 till 1st January 2011 - differences between areas of about 3% of gminas that affected about 6% of powiats and cities with powiat status as well as two voivodships. The period since 2nd January 2011 till 1st January 2012 - differences between areas of about 3% of gminas that affected about 7% of powiats and cities with powiat status. According to Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography information, the area given in km2 is the result of calculation by separated application, the main aim of which is the summing up the area of the lower lever units to the units of higher level. Data in square kilometres are not the results of rounding the area from hectares, thus there are the cases of their incorrectness.