Tianjin and Ł¨®dź Voivodeship are friendly associated on October, 11th, in 1994. Ł¨®dź Voivodeship is a province in central Poland. The province is named after its capital and largest city, Ł¨®dź. It has a population of 2,571,534£¨2006£©within the area of 18,219km2. It is the smallest province in Poland, and was created on 1 January 1999 out of the former Ł¨®dź Voivodeship (1975¨C1999) and the Sieradz, Piotrk¨®w Trybunalski and Skierniewice Voivodeships and part of Płock Voivodeship, pursuant to the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998. Ł¨®dź Voivodeship is bordered by six other voivodeships: Masovian to the north and east, Świętokrzyskie to the south-east, Silesian to the south, Opole to the south-west, Greater Poland to the west, and Kuyavian-Pomeranian for a short stretch to the north. Its territory belongs to three historical provinces of Poland ¨C Masovia (in the east), Greater Poland (in the west) and Lesser Poland (in the southeast, around Opoczno). |
