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Węgrów County ( pl, powiat węgrowski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (
powiat) in
Masovian Voivodeship, east-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
Węgrów, which lies east of
Warsaw. The only other town in the county is
Łochów
Łochów is a town in the Węgrów County, Masovian Voivodeship, the seat of the urban-rural Gmina Łochów, eastern Poland. In the years 1975-1998 the city administratively belonged to the Siedlce Voivodeship. According to data from 31 Decemb ...
, lying north-west of Węgrów.
The county covers an area of . As of 2019 its total population is 66,037, out of which the population of Węgrów is 12,628, that of Łochów is 6,825, and the rural population is 46,584.
Neighbouring counties
Węgrów County is bordered by
Ostrów Mazowiecka County to the north,
Sokołów County to the east,
Siedlce County to the south,
Mińsk County to the south-west, and
Wołomin County and
Wyszków County to the west.
Administrative division
The county is subdivided into nine
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 seven rural). These are listed in the following table, in descending order of population.
References
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Land counties of Masovian Voivodeship