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Rawa County ( pl, powiat rawski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (
powiat) in
Łódź Voivodeship, central
Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the
Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is
Rawa Mazowiecka
Rawa Mazowiecka is a town in central Poland, with 17,193 inhabitants (2020). It lies in the Łódź Voivodeship and is the capital of the Rawa County.
From 1562 the city hosted the ''Rawa Treasury'' for the Polish army. During an excavation in 1 ...
, which lies east of the regional capital
Łódź. The only other town in the county is
Biała Rawska
Biała Rawska is a town in Rawa County, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland, with 3,081 inhabitants as of December 2021.
History
Biala Rawska is one of the oldest settlements of historic Mazovia. In the 12th century, it probably was an administrative c ...
, lying east of Rawa Mazowiecka.
The county covers an area of . As of 2006 its total population is 49,443, out of which the population of Rawa Mazowiecka is 17,643, that of Biała Rawska is 3,182, and the rural population is 28,618.
Neighbouring counties
Rawa County is bordered by
Skierniewice County and
Żyrardów County to the north,
Grójec County to the east, and
Tomaszów Mazowiecki County Tomaszów may refer to the following places in Poland:
* Tomaszów Bolesławiecki, village in Lower Silesian Voivodeship
* Tomaszów, Lublin Voivodeship, village in Puławy County
* Tomaszów Lubelski County, county in Lublin Voivodeship
** Tomasz ...
to the south.
Administrative division
The county is subdivided into six
gmina
The gmina (Polish: , plural ''gminy'' , from German ''Gemeinde'' meaning ''commune'') is the principal unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a municipality. , there were 2,477 gminas throughout the country, encompassing over 4 ...
s (one urban, one urban-rural and four rural). These are listed in the following table, in descending order of population.
References
Polish official population figures 2006
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The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) (Persian:جمعیت انقلابی زنان افغانستان, ''Jamiʿat-e Enqelābi-ye Zanān-e Afghānestān'', Pashto:د افغانستان د ښڅو انقلابی جمعیت) ...