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Piotrków Governorate
Петроковская губерния
Gubernia piotrkowska
Piotrków Governorate Петроковская губерния; Gubernia piotrkowska
Governorate of Congress Poland
1867–1915
	Coat of arms
	; Location in the Russian Empire
Capital	Petrokov
Area
•	12,249.4 km2 (4,729.5 sq mi)
Population
• 1897	1,403,901
History
• Established	1867
• Disestablished	1915
Preceded by	Succeeded by
	Warsaw Governorate
Government General of Warsaw

Piotrków Governorate^[a] was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of Congress Poland of the Russian Empire, established in 1867 by splitting some areas of Radom and Warsaw Governorates. Its capital was in Petrokov (Piotrków Trybunalski).

History

It was created in 1867, split off from parts of Radom and Warsaw Governorates. It consisted of the uzeyds of Będzin, Częstochowa, Radomsko and Łódź.

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	1 011 928	72.07	497 412	514 516
Yiddish	213 562	15.21	104 914	108 648
German	148 765	10.59	72 445	76 320
Russian	19 232	1.36	14 938	4 294
Czech	4 987	0.35	2 563	2 424
Ukrainian	2 723	0.19	2 622	101
Other^[3]	2 614	0.18	2 153	461
Persons that didn't name their native language	90	>0.01	49	41
Total	1 403 901	100	697 096	706 805

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- Russian: Петроковская губерния, romanized: Petrokovskaya guberniya
- Polish: Gubernia piotrkowska

^ "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