Płock Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of Congress Poland of the Russian Empire.
It was created in 1837 from the Płock Voivodship, and had the same borders and capital (Płock) as the voivodship. In 1867 territories of the Augustów Governorate and the Płock Governorate were divided into a smaller Płock Governorate, Suwałki Governorate (consisting mostly of the Augustów Governorate territories) and recreated Łomża Governorate.
The Governorate consisted of eight counties (uyezds): Ciechanowski Lipnowski Mławski, Płocki Płoński Przasnyski Rypiński Sierpecki
Language
By the Imperial census of 1897.Language Statistics of 1897 In bold are languages spoken by more people than the state language.
+ Language Number percentage (%) males females Polish 447 685 80.86 216 794 230 891 Yiddish 51 215 9.25 24 538 26 677 German 35 931 6.49 17 409 18 522 Russian 15 137 2.73 13 551 1 586 Ukrainian 2 350 0.42 2 302 48 OtherLanguages, number of speakers which in all gubernia were less than 1000 1 285 0.23 1 041 244 Persons that didn't name their native language 27 >0.01 14 13 Total 553 633 100 275 652 277 981 +
References and notes
External links Gubernia płocka w Słowniku geograficznym Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom VIII (Perepiatycha — Pożajście) z 1887 r. Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland