Grudziądz County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (
) in
Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship * Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship is one of the 16 voivodeships (provinces) in Poland.
* Kuyavian-Pomeranian is one of 13 Polish constituency of the European Parliament.
* Kuyavian-Pomeranian Regional Assembly is the regional legislature of t ...
, north-central
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 is the city of
Grudziądz, although the city is not part of the county (it constitutes a separate city county). The only towns in Grudziądz County are
Łasin, which lies east of Grudziądz, and
Radzyń Chełmiński, south-east of Grudziądz.
The county covers an area of . As of 2019 its total population is 40,181, out of which the population of Łasin is 3,254, that of Radzyń Chełmiński is 1,847, and the rural population is 35,080.
Neighbouring counties
Apart from the city of
Grudziądz, Grudziądz County is also bordered by
Kwidzyn County to the north,
Iława County,
Nowe Miasto County and
Brodnica County to the east,
Wąbrzeźno County to the south, and
Chełmno County and
Świecie County to the west.
Administrative division
The county is subdivided into six
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 four rural). These are listed in the following table, in descending order of population.
References
Polish official population figures 2006
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Land counties of Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship