East Prussia (Ostpreußen) Maps

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Geographical Location Today

• After a new administrative reform on 1 January 1999 in the southern part of Poland, the area has been, almost in its entirety, the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship with the capital Olsztyn.
• The former Northeast Prussia today forms the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad with the capital Kaliningrad . After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, this region is now an exclave of the Russian Federation.

Administrative Districts 1871-1945

Partition After World War II The northern line separates the northern part of East Prussia, which went to Lithuania, and the central part, which went to the U.S.S.R. and is in Russia today. The southern line separates the central part, now in Russia, from the southern part of East Prussia, now in Poland.