Systems and economic reforms in this country have revealed many hitherto unknown socioeconomic phenomena. One of the most important - due to a destructive impact on many socioeconomic fields and relations — is unemployment. Drop in the number of those having jobs in 1994-2004 was enormous — the unemployment rate exceeded 10% over the whole period in question, reaching its maximum of 19.8% in 2006. Due to threats born by unemployment for the economy and society, limitation of this phenomenon has become a priority challenge for the economic and social policy in the last years. In her article, the author presents the spatial differentiation of unemployment rate and assesses shifts in the differentiation over the last years.