Żarów (german: Saarau) is a town in

Świdnica County __NOTOC__ Świdnica County ( pl, powiat świdnicki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, south-western Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local ...

, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western

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. It is the seat of the administrative district ( gmina) called

Gmina Żarów __NOTOC__ Gmina Żarów is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Świdnica County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Its seat is the town of Żarów, which lies approximately north-east of Świdnica, and south-we ...

. The town lies approximately north-east of

Świdnica Świdnica (; german: Schweidnitz; cs, Svídnice; szl, Świdńica) is a city in south-western Poland in the region of Silesia. As of 2019, it has a population of 57,014 inhabitants. It lies in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, being the seventh large ...

, and south-west of the regional capital

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. As of 2020, the town has a population of 12,335. 53.9% of the population is classified as urban, while 46.1% is classified as rural.

Notable people

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(1934-2021), political scientist *

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(1899–1990), artist

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Cities and towns in Lower Silesian Voivodeship Świdnica County {{Świdnica-geo-stub

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