population (3.85 million people). From the geographical perspective, much of the Austrian partition corresponded to the Galicia region. Prussian Partition The Kingdom of Prussia (known from second half of the 19th century as German Empire) annexed territories of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in all three partitions. The territories obtained were subdivided into the following. Netze District - from 1772 to 1793 New Silesia - from 1795 to 1807 New East Prussia - from 1795 to 1807 South Prussia - from 1793 to 1806 East Prussia - from 1773 to 1829 West Prussia - from 1773 to 1824. In the First Partition, Prussia has received 36,000 km2 and about 0.6 million people. In the second partition, Prussia had received 58,000 km2 and about 1 million people. In the third, similar to the second, Prussia gained 55,000 km2 and 1 million people. Overall, Prussia had gained about 20 percent of the former Commonwealth territory (149 000 km2) and about 23 percent of the population (2.6 million people). From the geographical perspective, much of the territories annexed by Prussia formed the province of Greater Poland (Wielkopolska). Russian Partition The Russian Empire which acquired the territories of the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia in all three Partitions, divided the former territories of the Commonwealth by either creating or enlarging the following guberniyas. Belarus Governorate (1802) Bratslav Governorate Chernigov Governorate Kiev Governorate (1708) Lithuania Governorate (1795), later split into Lithuania-Grodno Governorate and Lithuania-Vilna Governorate, the last one later split into Vilna and Kovno Governorates Minsk Governorate (1793) Mogilev Governorate (1772) Podolia Governorate (1773) Polotsk Governorate Pskov Governorate Slonim Governorate (1795) (several months after creation connected to Lithuania Governorate in and split off from it in 1801 as Lithuania-Grodno Governorate) Volhynia Governorate (1793) After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the Russian Empire created a separate entity called Congress Poland out of some of the above governorates. See administrative division of Congress Poland for details. Territories in the Russian partition which were not incorporated into Congress Poland were known as the Western Krai (combination of Northwestern and Southwestern Krais), and in Poland as the taken lands (). The Western Krai comprised the following lands of the Commonwealth: from the first partition of Poland (1772): Polish Inflants (Latgale), the northern part of the Polotsk Voivodeship, the entire Mstsislaw Voivodeship and Vitebsk Voivodeships, and the southeastern part of