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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
Geodetic area of the country according to the directions of use (P2779)
Years
2002-2021
Data accessibility level
Gminas
Last update
28/09/2023
  • 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
    Since 2022, data published only in the subgroup: Geodetic area of the country according to the directions of use (short-term data). Geodetic area of the country according to the directions of use as of 1 January; data of the Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography. Data for gminas level are available only for the years 2012-2014.