residence, was made capital of the province and also was the administrative center of the Regierungsbezirk Stettin. Subdivisions urban districts (): Greifswald: until 1932 administered by Regierungsbezirk Stralsund, population 37,051 (1939) Stargard (Pommern): split off Landkreis Saatzig in 1901, population 39,760 (1939) Stettin: population 210,702 (1900); 382,984 (1939) Stralsund: until 1932 administered by Regierungsbezirk Stralsund, population 52,931 (1939) rural districts (): Landkreis Anklam: population 32,693 (1900); 39,527 (1939) Landkreis Cammin i. Pom.: population 42,485 (1900); 45,694 (1939) Landkreis Demmin: population 48,090 (1900); 54,769 (1939) Landkreis Franzburg-Barth (Capital: Barth): until 1932 administered by Regierungsbezirk Stralsund, population 55,542 (1939) Landkreis Greifenberg i. Pom.: population 37,483 (1900); after 1939 administered by Regierungsbezirk Köslin Landkreis Greifenhagen: population 48,258 (1900); 69,326 (1939) Landkreis Greifswald: until 1932 administered by Regierungsbezirk Stralsund, population 39,207 (1939) Landkreis Grimmen: until 1932 administered by Regierungsbezirk Stralsund, population 42,259 (1939) Landkreis Naugard: population 52,777 (1900); 61,320 (1939) Landkreis Pyritz: population 42,686 (1900); 48,418 (1939) Landkreis Randow: population 94,859 (1900); partitioned in 1939 by Stadtkreis Stettin, Landkreis Greifenhagen, Landkreis Ueckermünde, and Landkreis Naugard Landkreis Rügen (Capital: Bergen auf Rügen): until 1932 administered by Regierungsbezirk Stralsund, population 62,261 (1939) Landkreis Regenwalde: population 44,954 (1900); Landkreis Saatzig (Capital: Stargard (Pommern)): population 69,762 (1900); 43,258 (1939) Landkreis Ueckermünde: population 56,767 (1900); 79,996 (1939) Landkreis Usedom-Wollin (Capital: Swinemünde): population 52,193 (1900); 83,479 (1939) Stralsund government region (Northwest) The Stralsund government region () comprised the Western Pomeranian region of . The reason for creating a Regierungsbezirk as small as Stralsund was that Neuvorpommern had a somewhat different history than the rest of Pomerania. This region, consisting of the island of Rügen and the adjacent mainland between the Recknitz and Peene rivers, made up the Rani and Danish Principality of Rugia in the Middle Ages. Although it was inherited by the Pomeranian dukes in 1325, the region was for some time governed as the splinter duchy of Pomerania-Barth. While a part of Swedish Pomerania, Denmark maintained her old claims and occupied the area in 1715 during the Great Northern War. Yet, the Danes were forced to return it to Sweden by the 1720 Treaty of Stockholm (Great Northern War). In the 1813 Treaty of Kiel, Denmark again gained nominal overlordship, yet was unable to pay her war reparations to Sweden and awarded her claim to Prussia in the 1815 Congress of Vienna along with her debts in exchange for the Duchy of Lauenburg. The name New Western Pomerania