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Investments are crucial in creating economic growth and development on national and regional level. Specific kind of investments are foreign investments. Above their impact on labour market and economic entities of a host country, they also contribute to transfers of technology, methods of management and indirectly to quality of products and services. The aim of the article is to identity the level of interdependence between location of enterprises with foreign capital and regionally diversified level of economic development in Poland. The conducted analysis was based on utilisation of data concerning the number of economic entities with foreign capital in regions (NUTS 2) of Poland as well as the number of people employed in enterprises with foreign capital, that were collated with GDP per capita of regions. Empiric findings brought to the conclusion that location of enterprises with foreign capital was concentrated in regions of Western Poland and in Mazowieckie voivodship. At the lowest pitch enterprises with foreign capital concerned regions of Eastern Poland. The analysis revealed high statistical dependency between concentration of employed in economic entities with foreign capital in Polish regions and GDP per capita ofthat regions. More enterprises with foreign capital were located in regions with higher GDP per capita as well as more workers were there employed. In 2007 GDP per capita explained 84.89 per cent of spatial distribution of economic entities with foreign capital (measured by the number of workers). Additionally, the described phenomenon was growing in size through the last years (mostly due to Mazowieckie voivodship).