• The biggest region in Poland  - 35 557 km2
• Population:  5 157 700 (13,5% of Polish population)
• GDP: PLN 39,8 bil
• Number of registered unemployed: 294 356  
• Unemployment rate: 11,9 %
• Number of enterprises: 606 058
• Number of enterprises with foreign capital: 20 150

Mazovia is one of the most dynamically developing regions in Poland and in Central-Eastern Europe. It is a crossroads of communication, trading and financial routes connecting the East and West of Europe. The most northern and southern parts of the continent are also connected via routes passing through Mazovia. Mazovia, in itself, is an attractive terrain for economic investment. Not only due to its geographical placement, but also due to Mazovia’s role in the national economy, Mazovia produces as much as 20 percent of the national income. Its present industrial potential together with its well developed telecommunication infrastructure as well as its agricultural potential and the most productive human resources in the country, create an unlimited perspective of fast returns on investment outlays.

For over four centuries, Mazovia has been a gateway to Poland. It is the centre and the seat of the national capital. It lies at the crossroad of trade and communication routes connecting the east and the west of Europe. It is here, in Poland's most populous province, where hundreds of the biggest domestic and foreign companies have established their headquarters. It is here that all the major government offices are located. Mazovia is the leader of Polish transformation and the country's fastest growing region.

5 reasons why investors choose mazovia

• Easy access to the Polish market, the largest in Central Europe (almost 40 million people), and to the regional market (over 5 million people)
• The role of Warsaw as Poland's decision-making centre and the fact that Mazovia is Poland's best developed region
• Convenient connections with the rest of the country and Europe
• Good infrastructure and business environment: from office space standards, through telecommunications, transport and business services
• Low labour costs and well-educated human capital

Source: Mazovia Development Agency PLC

Advice&Reports

An investor's guide - Why to invest in Mazovia? Poland is the primary beneficiary of direct foreign investment in East-Central Europe and Mazovia is in the leading group of regions that have attracted the largest capital.

The Investor Assistance Centre - services for investors Assisting entrepreneurs in the choice of a new investment location, providing complex information about the Mazovian voivodeship available, processing information about regional economic entities, mediation in gaining contacts with public and private entities.

The Mazowieckie Voivodeship - An attractive region in Poland, Europe and in the World Mazovia is an unusual area on the map of Poland because of its location in the centre of the country, the capital city, the biggest area that takes eleven percent of the country’s territory, and the biggest local community that numbers over five million people.

Economy In terms of absorptive capacity, potential and infrastructure, the province remains the country's most attractive region for foreign investors. The economy has been mostly privatized with the private sector producing over 75% of GDP.

Real_Estate_Market_in_Mazovia Poland’s property market is one of the most dynamic in the Central and Eastern European (CEE). The region experience present an unprecedented rise in demand for residential and commercial properties from international investors.

Transportation to and from the Mazovia country The capital city functions of Warsaw and the almost central location of the voivodeship in Poland have had an influence on the shaping of the transport system in the region. Warsaw is the domestic transport centre in motor, railway and air traffic.

The Biggest Cities in Mazovia

Warsaw Warsaw, the capital of the region and the nation, with its communication channel to the whole world via The Chopin International Airport, is one of the fastest developing cities of the European Union.

Ostroleka Ostrołęka is a the town located at a crossing of routes from the West to the East of Europe. The distance from here to Warsaw airport is only 120 km. The town's surroundings are in the centre of Kurp culture, still existing in a day-to-day life of forest villages.

Plock Płock is a city of 130 thousand inhabitants picturesquely located on a steep of Vistula riverbank. Płock is one of the oldest Polish cities with its numerous monuments speaking for its thousand years' history.

Radom Radom covers the area of 112 km2, and has over 230,000 inhabitants. The city is situated only 100 km away from the capital city, at the crossroads of main communication routes. 5 national roads meet and cross in Radom, 2 of them serve as international routes.

Siedlce Siedlce is located in the Eastern part of the Mazovian Voivodship on the traditional international route from Lisbon to Moscow through Paris, Berlin and Warsaw. There is also an international railway that links East and West of Europe.