Kraków Voivodeship (1919–1939)

Kraków Voivodeship (Polish: województwo krakowskie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1919–1939.

It occupied a large area of the southern part of the country, including such cities as Kraków, Jaworzno and Tarnów.

Its western part, with such cities as Jaworzno, Chrzanów or Trzebinia, was to a large degree industrialized and urbanized, with some coalmines.

In mid-1930s Polish government started a huge public works program, called Centralny Okręg Przemysłowy (COP), which was a great boost to overpopulated and poor central and eastern counties.

The Jews preferred to live in the cities and towns; in 1931 they made 19.2% of Voivodeship's urban population.

Administrative division, 1938