Płock Governorate

1837–1915 unit of Poland

Płock Governorate

Плоцкая губерния
Gubernia płocka

Governorate of Congress Poland
1837–1915

Coat of arms

Location in the Russian Empire
Capital| Plotsk
Area|

| 9,430.8 km2 (3,641.3 sq mi)
Population|

• 1897[1]

| 553,633
History|

• Established

| 1837

• Disestablished

| 1915

Preceded by | Succeeded by

|

|  | Płock Voivodeship

|

| Government General of Warsaw |

|

Płock Governorate[a] was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of Congress Poland of the Russian Empire.

It was created in 1837 from the Płock Voivodship, and had the same borders and capital (Płock) as the voivodship. In 1867 territories of the Augustów Governorate and the Płock Governorate were divided into a smaller Płock Governorate, Suwałki Governorate (consisting mostly of the Augustów Governorate territories) and recreated Łomża Governorate.

The Governorate consisted of eight counties (uyezds):

* Ciechanowski
* Lipnowski
* Mławski,
* Płocki
* Płoński
* Przasnyski
* Rypiński
* Sierpecki

## Language

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Плоцкая губерния

* By the Imperial census of 1897.[2] In bold are languages spoken by more people than the state language.

Language  | Number  | percentage (%)  | males  | females

|
|
|
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Polish | 447 685  | 80.86  | 216 794  | 230 891
Yiddish | 51 215  | 9.25  | 24 538  | 26 677
German | 35 931  | 6.49  | 17 409  | 18 522
Russian | 15 137  | 2.73  | 13 551  | 1 586
Ukrainian | 2 350  | 0.42  | 2 302  | 48
Other[3] | 1 285  | 0.23  | 1 041  | 244
Persons
that didn't name
their native language  | 27  | >0.01  | 14  | 13
Total  | 553 633  | 100  | 275 652  | 277 981

## References and notes

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1. ^ "Первая всеобщая перепись населения Российской Империи 1897 г." [The first general census of the population of the Russian Empire in 1897]. Demoscope Weekly (in Russian).
2. ^ Language Statistics of 1897 (in Russian)
3. ^ Languages, number of speakers which in all gubernia were less than 1000

1. ^

* Russian: Плоцкая губерния, romanized: Plotskaya guberniya
* Polish: Gubernia Płocka

## External links

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* (in Polish) Gubernia płocka w Słowniku geograficznym Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom VIII (Perepiatycha — Pożajście) z 1887 r.
* Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland

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Administrative divisions of the Kingdom of Poland (Congress Poland)

1816–1837 voivodeships|

* Augustów
* Kalisz
* Kraków
* Lublin
* Masovian
* Płock
* Podlaskie
* Sandomierz

1837–1844 governorates|

* Augustów
* Kalisz
* Kraków
* Lublin
* Masovian
* Płock
* Podlasie
* Sandomierz

1844–1867 governorates|

* Augustów
* Lublin
* Płock
* Radom
* Warsaw

1867–1914 governorates|

* Kalisz
* Kielce
* Lublin
* Łomża
* Piotrków
* Płock
* Radom
* Siedlce
* Suwałki
* Warsaw

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Governorates of the Vistula Land (1867–1914)

* Kalisz
* Kielce
* Lublin
* Łomża
* Piotrków
* Płock
* Radom
* Siedlce
* Sandomierz
* Warsaw

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