Białystok Voivodeship (1945-1975)

Infobox Former Subdivision
native_name = Województwo białostockie
conventional_long_name = Białystok Voivodeship
common_name = Białystok
subdivision = Voivodeship
nation = Poland
year_start = 1945
date_start =
year_end = 1975
date_end =
p1 = Belastok Voblast
flag_p1 = Flag of Byelorussian SSR.svg
p2=Polish Underground State
flag_p2=Flaga PPP.svg
s1=Białystok Voivodeship (1975-1998)
flag_s1=Flag of Poland.svg
s2=Łomża Voivodeship
flag_s2=Flag of Poland.svg
s3=Suwałki Voivodeship
flag_s3=Flag of Poland.svg




image_map_caption = Map of the People's Republic of Poland in 1957 with the Białystok Voivodeship.
capital = Białystok |latd=53 | latm=08 | latNS=N | longd=23 | longm=09 | longEW=E
political_subdiv = Counties: 24

Białystok Voivodeship ( _pl. Województwo białostockie, _be. Беластоцкае ваяводства) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland from 1945 to 1975, when it was superseded by Białystok Voivodeship (1975-1998). Its capital city is Białystok.

Area administrative region of 1950, amounted to 23 201 square kilometres, was later reduced to 23 153 square kilometres. The population was in 1946, approximately 941 000, in 1970 approximately 1 176 000 inhabitants.

Government

Administrative Divisions

List of Counties in 1967:
*City Counties: Białystok. (1)
*Land Counties: Augustów, Białystok, Bielsk Podlaski, Dąbrowa Białostocka, Ełk, Gołdap, Grajewo, Hajnówka, Kolno, Łapy, Łomża, Mońki, Olecko, Sejny, Siemiatycze, Sokółka, Suwałki, Wysokie Mazowieckie, Zambrów. (19)

Adjacent Voivodeships

The Voivodeship shares a border on the east with the Olsztyn Voivodeship, the southwest with the Warsaw Voivodeship, the south with the Lublin Voivodeship, the north with the RSFSR's Kaliningrad Oblast, the northeast with the Lithuanian SSR and the east with the Byelorussian SSR.