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What is the poorest province in Poland?


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SebastianThreads: 8
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 Jul 12, 10, 18:54    #1
I'm just curious, I can't find it on the computer. Does anybody know what it is?

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Edited by: pgtx  Jul 12, 10, 18:57    #2
Sebastian:
I'm just curious, I can't find it on the computer. Does anybody know what it is?

Lubelszczyzna...

how come you can't find anything about that online...?
David_18Threads: 111
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 Jul 12, 10, 19:01    #3
Well Eastern Poland is poorer in general. But i guess the Podkarpacie region is kinda poor too.
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Edited by: SzwedwPolsce  Jul 12, 10, 21:51    #4
pgtx:
how come you can't find anything about that online...?

That GDP table is 10 years old. However, as expected, the regions with the big economically important cities do best.

Most bigger cities do quite well. But almost all of the Polish countryside is still poor. The difference between Eastern and Western Poland is not very big. Except from the fact that there are a few more big cities in West.
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Edited by: jwojcie  Jul 12, 10, 23:16    #5
It is a nice map:
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/mapToolClosed.do;jsessionid=9ea79 74b30ddcb577b72057a4716a43efec8fb927df4.e34SbxiPb3uSb40Lb34LaxqRb30Ne0 ?tab=map&init=1&plugin=1&language=en&pcode=tgs00005&toolbox=types#

it is interactive, just move cursor over choosen region and you will see PPS value.
According to this map Podkarpackie is even poorer than Lubelskie. But as for statistics always some disbilief is needed. For example recently were others stats where some additional things were measured and it showed that some western regions were slightly worse..

As for you question "why east of Poland is poorer" it is a combination of factors like:
- it is quite rural (what wouldn't be bad thing alone if size of farms weren't so small there)
- it is far from let name it European core of wealth :-)
- it has worse infrastructure
- it has quite poor neighbourhood -> Ukraine and Belarus.

Well, on the bright side, those region in medieval and renaissance times was supposedly relatively rich given European standard of that time... so there is a hope :-)



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