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Warsaw
Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...
is a city with powiat rights
A city with powiat rights ( pl, miasto na prawach powiatu) is in Poland a designation denoting 66 of the 107 cities (the urban gminas which are governed by a city mayor or ''prezydent miasta'') which exercise also the powers and duties of a Powiat, ...
, and is further divided into 18 districts (''dzielnica
In the Poland, Polish system of local administration, a dzielnica (Polish plural ''dzielnice'') is an administrative subdivision or quarter (country subdivision), quarter of a city or town. A dzielnica may have its own elected council (''rada dzi ...
'' ), auxiliary units which are integral parts of the city as an entity, but with some limited powers devolved to their own local self-governments.
The current division into quarters was established in 2002. The 18 districts are informally divided broadly into the inner and outer city quarters, as follows:
*inner city districts
**Śródmieście
**Mokotów
**Ochota
**Wola
**Żoliborz
**Praga Południe
**Praga Północ
*outer city (or "wreath") districts
**Bemowo
**Białołęka
**Bielany
**Rembertów
**Targówek
**Ursus
**Ursynów
**Wawer
**Wesoła
**Wilanów
**Włochy
Districts of Warsaw
Neighbourhoods
Each of the districts is customarily subdivided into several smaller areas, known under the designation of a neighbourhood (''osiedle
Osiedle (Polish plural: ''osiedla'', from German ''Ansiedlung'' meaning ''settlement'') is a term used in Poland to denote a designated subdivision or neighbourhood of a city or its dzielnica, or of a town, with its own council and executive. Lik ...
''), a unit with no legal or administrative powers, used for statistics or as a designation within the city localization system (Miejski System Informacji).
History
1994-2002
1990-1994
1959–1990
1951/1952–1959
Coats of arms
Some, but not all of the districts use specific coats of arms.References
External links
* Quarters of Warsaw {{Warsaw-geo-stub