Regierungsbezirk Liegnitz bordered Regierungsbezirk Breslau to the east. In the northeast, it bordered the Province of Posen (from 1919, Poland), in the northwest, the Province of Brandenburg, in the west, Saxony and in the south, the Austrian crown land of Bohemia (from 1919, Czechoslovakia). From 1919 to 1938 and from 1941 to 1945, Silesia was divided into two provinces. At this time, the administrative region of Liegnitz belonged to the Province of Lower Silesia.
