Eastern (Kresy) Poles in modern Poland

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Distribution in modern Poland (by region) of Poles with ancestry from former Polish Eastern Lands:

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Sources: a 2012 survey by CBOS, 1950 census and Leszek Kosiński's publications from the 1960s.
 
Actually county-level data is available from the 1950 census about origins of the population in the so called Recovered Territories of Poland.

I checked in PAST how they cluster together and about 20 different clusters can be distinguished based on similar population composition:

Font colour of county names is based on administrative divisions (not all counties belong to the main cluster of their particular province):

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^^^
That clustering was done based on data from the 1950 census about 22 different types of origin according to place of residence in 1939:

Cluster name is listed near each county:

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^^^ Here is how the map of clusters looks like, as you can see clusters based on origin of the inhabitants correlate well with geography:

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^^^ There is also data for the whole country, year 1950 origin of population by province (post-war provinces):

Some provinces included both areas that were parts of Poland in 1939 and areas that were parts of Germany in 1939:
(Gdansk Voivodeship in 1950 included pre-1939 "Polish Corridor", former Free City Danzig, and a few more counties)

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And here the 1950 names of Voivodeships (provinces) added - at that time they were named after capital cities:

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^^^ I wonder if similar data is available for the formerly Non-Czech areas of Sudetenland, which were settled by Czechs and others after WW2.

AFAIK a lot of people in these areas are Volhynian Czechs (= ethnic Czechs from Ukraine), as well as Slovaks, Carpathian Rusyns and Gypsies:

This map shows the distribution of ethnic Czechs in the early 20th century - areas in the north-west of the country had almost no ethnic Czechs:

http://terkeptar.transindex.ro/belso.php?nev=10

http://terkeptar.transindex.ro/legbelso.php?nev=10

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