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Suwałki ([suˈvau̯kʲi] ⓘ; Lithuanian: Suvalkai; Yiddish: סואוואַלק or סוּוואַלק) is a city in northeastern Poland with a population of 69,206 (2021). It is the capital of Suwałki County and one of the most important centers of commerce in the Podlaskie Voivodeship.
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The Suwałki Gap, also known as the Suwałki corridor ([suˈvawkʲi] ⓘ), is a sparsely populated area around the border between Lithuania and Poland, and centres on the shortest path between Belarus and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast on the Polish side of the border.
The Suwałki Region remains as the center of the Lithuanian minority in Poland. [4] [5] Historical affiliations of the region (including occupations during world wars) Yotvingians until 14th century. Grand Duchy of Lithuania 1400s–1569. Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 1569–1795. Kingdom of Prussia 1795–1807.
Suwałki, city, Podlaskie województwo (province), extreme northeastern Poland. First chronicled as a village having a hermitage of the Camaldolese monks (1682–90), Suwałki received its town rights in 1715. In 1796 it came under Prussian influence and became a Russian garrison in 1897.
Suwałki County (Polish: powiat suwalski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Podlaskie Voivodeship, north-eastern Poland, on the Lithuanian border. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998.
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