 Most of it consisted of the Polesie swamp - a flat, vast, sparsely inhabited area, with several rivers and streams.Access to some villages and hamlets required boats, especially in early spring, when the waters of the Pripyat and other rivers (like the Pina, the Styr and the Horyn) rose as the snow melted.In 1937 forests covered 33.3% of the Voivodeship (compared with the average for the whole country of 22.2%).