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Koło County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (
) in
Greater Poland Voivodeship
Greater Poland Voivodeship ( ) is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship, or province, in west-central Poland. The province is named after the region called Greater Poland (''Wielkopolska'' ). The modern province includes most of this historic re ...
, west-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 in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is
Koło, which lies east of the regional capital
Poznań
Poznań ( ) is a city on the Warta, River Warta in west Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business center and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John's ...
. The county contains three other towns:
Kłodawa, east of Koło,
Dąbie, south-east of Koło, and
Przedecz, north-east of Koło.
The county covers an area of . As of 2010, its total population was 88,244, out of which the population of Koło was 23,034, that of Kłodawa was 6,829, that of Dąbie was 2,087, that of Przedecz was 1,771, and the rural population was 54,880.
History
Unit formed in
Kalisz Governorate in 1867, since 1918 in the
Second Polish Republic
The Second Polish Republic, at the time officially known as the Republic of Poland, was a country in Central and Eastern Europe that existed between 7 October 1918 and 6 October 1939. The state was established in the final stage of World War I ...
, German Landkreis Warthbrücken during World War II, later in
Polish People's Republic, dissolved in 1975, reconstructed in 1998.
Neighbouring counties
Koło County is bordered by
Radziejów County and
Włocławek County
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Włocławek County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reform ...
to the north,
Kutno County and
Łęczyca County to the east,
Poddębice County to the south-east,
Turek County to the south, and
Konin County to the west.
Administrative division
The county is subdivided into 11
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 (one urban, three urban-rural and seven rural). These are listed in the following table, in descending order of population.
See also
*
Dobrowska Foundation
References
Polish official population figures 2006
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Land counties of Greater Poland Voivodeship