Administrative Map of Interwar Poland, 1 April 1939

An historical black-and-white administrative map of the Second Republic of Poland showing national, voivodeship, and powiat boundaries of the country; the outline of former Galicia is still clear in the southeastern four voivodeships. Published by the Polish Central Statistical Office in Warsaw on the precise date of 1 April 1939, this map preceded the Second World War by exactly five months. Single image sourced by Jay Osborn from the Polona Digital Library (an initiative of the National Library of Poland).

Original map in the public domain. Digital scan from the Polona Digital Library. Online interactive map © 2015 Gesher Galicia, Inc. For more information, visit the Gesher Galicia Map Room.