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Åšwidnica County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (
) in
Lower Silesian Voivodeship
Lower Silesian Voivodeship (, ) in southwestern Poland, is one of the 16 Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeships (provinces) into which Poland is divided. It covers an area of and has a total population of 2,899,986.
It is one of the wealthiest ...
, south-western
Poland
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. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the
Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. The county covers an area of . Its administrative seat is
Åšwidnica, and it also contains the towns of
Åšwiebodzice,
Strzegom,
Jaworzyna ÅšlÄ…ska and
Żarów.
As of 2019 the total population of the county is 157,178. The most populated towns are Åšwidnica with 57,041 inhabitants, Åšwiebodzice with 22,793 inhabitants, and Strzegom with 16,106 inhabitants.
Neighbouring counties
Åšwidnica County is bordered by
Åšroda ÅšlÄ…ska County to the north,
Wrocław County to the north-east,
Dzierżoniów County to the south,
Wałbrzych County to the south-west and
Jawor County to the north-west.
Administrative division
The county is subdivided into eight
gmina
The gmina (Polish: , plural ''gminy'' ) is the basic unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a municipality. , there were 2,479 gminy throughout the country, encompassing over 43,000 villages. 940 gminy include cities and tow ...
s (two urban, three urban-rural and three rural). These are listed in the following table, in descending order of population.
References
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Land counties of Lower Silesian Voivodeship