Bytów County (, ) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (
) in
Pomeranian Voivodeship
Pomeranian Voivodeship ( ; ) is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship, or province, in northwestern Poland. The provincial capital is Gdańsk.
The voivodeship was established on January 1, 1999, out of the former voivodeships of Gdańsk Voivo ...
, northern
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...
. 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
Bytów, which lies west of the regional capital
Gdańsk. The only other town in the county is
Miastko, lying west of Bytów.
The county covers an area of . As of 2019 its total population is 79,260, out of which the population of Bytów is 16,918, that of Miastko is 10,439, and the rural population is 51,903.
''Bytów County on a map of the counties of Pomeranian Voivodeship''
Bytów County is bordered by
Słupsk County to the north,
Lębork County to the north-east,
Kartuzy County and
Kościerzyna County to the east,
Chojnice County and
Człuchów County to the south, and
Szczecinek County and
Koszalin County to the west.
Local Government
District head
* Leszek Pałasz (1998-2001)
* Andrzej Hrycyna p.o. (2001-2002)
* Michał Świątek-Brzeziński (2002-2006)
* Roman Zaborowski (2006-2007)
* Jacek Żmuda-Trzebiatowski (2007-2015)
* Leszek Waszkiewicz (from 2015)
Vice district head
* Andrzej Hrycyna (1998-2002)
* Tomasz Borowski (2002-2006)
* Krzysztof Sławski (2006-2010)
* Andrzej Marcinkowski (2010-2014)
* Zbigniew Batko (from 2014)
Chairman of the county council
* Mieczysław Bachórz (1998-2002)
* Jerzy Jobczyk (2002-2006)
* Andrzej Hrycyna (from 2006)
Administrative division
The county is subdivided into 10
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-rural and eight rural). These are listed in the following table, in descending order of population.
References
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Kashubia
Land counties of Pomeranian Voivodeship