Augustów Primeval Forest is a large virgin forest

Virgin Forest

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 complex located in Poland

Poland

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 as well as in northern Belarus

Belarus

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 and southeastern Lithuania

Lithuania

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. The forest covers about 1,600 km², of which 1,140 km² is in Poland.

The Polish part of the forest is located in Podlaskie Voivodeship

Podlaskie Voivodeship

Podlaskie Voivodeship , is a voivodeship in northeastern Poland. It borders on Masovian Voivodeship to the west, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship to the northwest, Lublin Voivodeship to the south, the Belarusssian Voblasts of Grodno and Brest to the east, the Lithuanian Counties of Alytus and...

 in northeastern part of the country.

The northern part of the Augustów Primeval Forest has been turned into one of the youngest Polish national parks. It was established in 1989, as the Wigry National Park

Wigry National Park

Wigry National Park is a National Park in Podlaskie Voivodeship in north-eastern Poland. It covers parts of the Masurian Lake District and Augustów Primeval Forest . It is named after lake Wigry, the largest of the Park's many lakes...

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