Editing Pomerania (section)

==Geography==
[[File:Pomeraniae Ducatus Tabula.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25|17th-century map of the [[Duchy of Pomerania]]]]
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===Borders===
Pomerania is the area along the [[Bay of Pomerania]] of the [[Baltic Sea]] between the rivers [[Recknitz]], [[Trebel (river)|Trebel]], [[Tollense]] and [[Augraben (Tollense)|Augraben]] in the west and [[Vistula]] in the east.<ref name=Columbia/><ref name="bartleby.com">The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, 2000, Pomerania [http://www.bartleby.com/61/39/P0433900.html]</ref> It formerly reached perhaps as far south as the [[Noteć]] river, but since the 13th century its southern boundary has been placed further north.

===Landscape===
Most of the region is coastal lowland, being part of the [[North European Plain|Central European Plain]]. Its southern, hilly parts belong to the Baltic Ridge, a belt of terminal [[moraine]]s formed during the [[Pleistocene]]. Within this ridge, a chain of [[moraine-dammed lake]]s constitutes the [[Pomeranian Lake District]]. The soil is generally rather poor, sometimes sandy or marshy.<ref name=Columbia/>

The western coastline is jagged, with many peninsulas (such as [[Darß]]–[[Zingst]]) and islands (including [[Rügen]], [[Usedom]], and [[Wolin]]) enclosing numerous bays ([[Bodden]]) and lagoons (the biggest being the [[Lagoon of Szczecin]]).

The eastern coastline is smooth. [[Łebsko lake|Łebsko]] and several other lakes were formerly bays, but have been cut off from the sea. The easternmost coastline along the [[Gdańsk Bay]] (with the [[Bay of Puck]]) and [[Vistula Lagoon]], has the [[Hel Peninsula]] and the [[Vistula peninsula]] jutting out into the Baltic.

===Subregions===
The Pomeranian region has the following administrative divisions:

* [[Western Pomerania]] (''Vorpommern'') in northeastern Germany, stretching from the Recknitz river to the [[Germany–Poland border]]. This region is part of the [[States of Germany|federal state]] of [[Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania]]. The southernmost part of historical Western Pomerania (the [[Gartz]] area) is now in [[Brandenburg]], while its historical eastern parts (the [[Oder]] estuary) are now in Poland. Western Pomerania comprises the historical regions inhabited by Western Slavic tribes Rugians and Volinians,{{citation needed|date=August 2014}} otherwise the [[Principality of Rügen]] and the [[County of Gützkow]].
* The [[Zachodniopomorskie|West Pomeranian Voivodeship]] (''Zachodniopomorskie'') in Poland, stretching from the Oder–Neisse line to the [[Wieprza]] river, encompassing most of historical Pomerania in the narrow sense (as well as small parts of historic [[Greater Poland]] and [[Lubusz Land]]).
* The [[Pomeranian Voivodeship]], with similar borders to [[Pomerelia]], stretching from the Wieprza river to the [[Vistula]] delta in the vicinity of [[Gdańsk]].
* The northern half of the [[Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship]], comprising most of [[Tuchola Forest#Ethnocultural region|Tuchola Forest]] and [[Chełmno Land]].

The bulk of [[Farther Pomerania]] is included within the modern West Pomeranian Voivodeship, but its easternmost parts (the [[Słupsk]] area) now constitute the northwest of Pomeranian Voivodeship. Farther Pomerania in turn comprises several other historical subregions, most notably the former [[Principality of Cammin]], the [[Nowogard]] County, and the [[Słupsk and Sławno Land]]. The [[Lębork and Bytów]] Land is considered a part of [[Pomerelia]] ([[Kashubia]]) by the Polish historiography, and of [[Farther Pomerania]] by the German historiography.

Parts of Pomerania and surrounding regions have constituted a [[euroregion]] since 1995. The [[Pomerania euroregion]] comprises Hither Pomerania and [[Uckermark]] in Germany, West Pomerania in Poland, and [[Scania]] in Sweden.

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File:Pomerania in Poland.png|"Narrow Pomerania" or Western Pomerania in Poland
File:EKD Pommern.svg|The German part of Pomerania
File:Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Map Districts Border Mecklenburg Western Pomerania - Landkreise Grenzen Karte MV MeckPomm.svg|The border between Pomerania and [[Mecklenburg]] running through [[Mecklenburg-Vorpommern]]
File:Małe regaty na jeziorze Wdzydze.jpg| [[Wdzydze Lake]] ([[Pomeranian Voivodeship]])
File:Słowiński Park Narodowy 102.jpg|[[Słowiński National Park]] (Pomeranian Voivodeship)
File:Niechorze Widok z latarni 3 (Piotr Kuczynski).jpg|Typical Pomeranian beach ([[West Pomeranian Voivodeship]])
File:Poland Turkusowe Lake.jpg|[[Wolin National Park]] (West Pomeranian Voivodeship)
File:Hiddensee Landsat.jpg|[[Hiddensee]] ([[Mecklenburg-Vorpommern]]/[[Western Pomerania]])
File:Kap Arkona2.jpg|[[Cape Arkona]] (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern/Western Pomerania)
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