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Kamień County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (
) in
West Pomeranian Voivodeship
West Pomeranian Voivodeship is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship (province) in northwestern Poland. Its capital and largest city is Szczecin. Its area equals , and in 2021, it was inhabited by 1,682,003 people.
It was established on 1 Janua ...
, north-western
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 ...
, on the
Baltic coast. It existed from 1945 to 1975 and was re-established in its current form on January 1, 1999, as a result of the
Polish local government reforms
The administrative division of Poland since 1999 has been based on three levels of subdivision. The territory of Poland is divided into ''voivodeships'' (provinces); these are further divided into ''powiats'' (counties or districts), and these i ...
passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is
Kamień Pomorski, which lies north of the regional capital
Szczecin
Szczecin ( , , ; ; ; or ) is the capital city, capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the Poland-Germany border, German border, it is a major port, seaport, the la ...
. The county contains four other towns:
Międzyzdroje, west of Kamień Pomorski,
Wolin, south-west of Kamień Pomorski,
Dziwnów, north-west of Kamień Pomorski, and
Golczewo, south-east of Kamień Pomorski.
The county covers an area of . As of 2006, its total population is 47,604, out of which the population of Kamień Pomorski is 9,134, that of Misdroy is 5,436, that of Wolin is 4,878, that of Dziwnów is 2,949, that of Golczewo is 2,724, and the rural population is 22,483.
Neighbouring counties
Kamień County is bordered by
Gryfice County to the east,
Goleniów County to the south and the city of
Świnoujście to the west. It also borders the
Baltic Sea
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to the north.
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 (five urban-rural and one 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 West Pomeranian Voivodeship
States and territories established in 1945
States and territories disestablished in 1975
States and territories established in 1999