Lublin Governorate Люблинская губерния Gubernia lubelska
Governorate of the Russian Empire
1837–1915
Coat of arms
Location within the Russian Empire
Capital	Lyublin
Area
•	16,831.3 km2 (6,498.6 sq mi)
Population
• 1897[1]	1,160,662
History
• Established	1837
• Disestablished	1915
Preceded by Succeeded by Lublin Voivodeship 1912: Kholm Governorate 1915: Government General of Warsaw

Lublin Governorate^[a] was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of Congress Poland of the Russian Empire.

History

The Lublin Governorate was created in 1837 from the Lublin Voivodeship, and had the same borders and capital (Lublin) as the voivodeship.

Its lower levels of administration were also mostly unchanged, although renamed from obwóds to powiats. There were ten of those units named after their capital cities: Biłgorajski, Chełmski, Hrubieszowski, Janowski, Krasnystawski, Lubartowski, Lubelski, Puławski (from 1842: nowoaleksandryjski), Tomaszowski and Zamojski.

The Reform of 1844 merged the governorate with Podlasie Governorate, until the 1867 reform which reversed those changes (although Podlasie Governorate was renamed Siedlce Governorate). In 1912 some of the territories of the governorate were split off into the newly created Kholm Governorate.

Language

• By the Imperial census of 1897.^[2] In bold are languages spoken by more people than the state language.