It was created on January 1 1999 out of the former Olsztyn and parts of Suwalki and Elblag voivodships as a result of Local Government Reogranization Act of 1998. The voivodship's name recalls the region's two historical lands of Warmia and Masuria (Mazury).
The territory is just south of Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast. It was the southern part of East Prussia until 1947 and for centuries shared the History of Prussia.
The capital of this administrative region is: Olsztyn.
Area: 24,202 km˛
Population: 1,460,900.
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