What is "kielce"

Kielce ( ; , Keltz) is a city in south central Poland with 199,475 inhabitants (June 2014). It is also the capital city of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship (Holy Cross Voivodeship) since 1999, previously in Kielce Voivodeship (1919–1939, 1945–1998). The city is located in the middle of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains (Holy Cross Mountains), at the banks of the Silnica River, in northern part of the historical Polish province of Lesser Poland. Kielce was once an important centre of limestone mining.

Kielce may refer to:

• Kielce, a city in central Poland and the capital city of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship
• Kielce County, a powiat (county) in Poland, in Świętokrzyskie Voivodship
• Kielce Voivodeship, a former unit of administrative division and local government in Poland

Kielce is a Polish parliamentary constituency that is coterminous with the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship. It elects sixteen members of the Sejm and three members of the Senate.

The district has the number '33' for elections to the Sejm and '32' for elections to the Senate, and is named after the city of Kielce. It includes the counties of Kielce, Ostrowiec, Starachowice, Jędrzejów, Końskie, Sandomierz, Skarżysko, Staszów, Busko, Opatów, Włoszczowa, Pińczów, and Kazimierza and the city county of Kielce.