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Wielkopolskie is a voivodeship (province) in the West of Poland, whose name is derived from the historic and geographic region of Greater Poland. The regional capital is Poznań.
The region was under German rule for all of the 19th century and maintains many reminiscences. The population is pretty evenly spread, and the region is quite industrialized in terms of light industry like machine-building or foodstuffs, but there is no heavy industry and there is a fair amount of intact nature.
Greater Poland Voivodeship (in Polish: Województwo Wielkopolskie . The modern province includes most of this historic region, except for some western parts.
Greater Poland Voivodeship is second in area and third in population among Poland's sixteen voivodeships, with an area of 29,826 square kilometres (11,516 sq mi) and a population of close to 3.5 million. Its capital city is Poznań, other important cities include Kalisz, Konin, Piła, Ostrów Wielkopolski, Gniezno (an early capital of Poland) and Leszno. It is bordered by seven other voivodeships: West Pomeranian to the northwest, Pomeranian to the north, Kuyavian-Pomeranian to the north-east, Łódź to the south-east, Opole to the south, Lower Silesian to the southwest and Lubusz to the west.
The city of Poznań has international twinning arrangements with the English county of Nottinghamshire.