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

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


Language	Number	percentage (%)	males	females
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

^ "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).
^ Language Statistics of 1897 (in Russian)
^ Languages, number of speakers which in all gubernia were less than 1000

^
- Russian: Плоцкая губерния, romanized: Plotskaya guberniya
- Polish: Gubernia Płocka

External links

(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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