The list of proposed voivodeships (provinces) of Poland.
In 2008, Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights proposed the creation of an electoral district for Polish citizens voting from abroad.
It was planned to have its own representation in the Parliament of Poland, to represent the interest of the Polish citizens that live abroad.
An additional reason for its creation was that, at the time, the votes from abroad, were counted as given in Warsaw I electoral district, which consists of Warsaw, the capital city of Poland, which resulted in untruthful statistical data.
[10] Polish zone in Iraq that existed from 2003 to 2008, during the Iraq War was sometimes colloquially referred to in media as the Iraqi Voivodeship (Polish: województwo irackie) and the 17th voivodeship (Polish: 17.