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Kłodzko 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 1 January 1999 as a result of the
Polish local government reforms passed in 1998.
The county covers an area of ; its territory almost exactly corresponds to the former
Bohemian, later
Prussian,
County of Kladsko. It is located in a panhandle called Kłodzko Panhandle. The county's administrative seat is the town of
Kłodzko; the other towns are:
Duszniki-Zdrój,
Nowa Ruda,
Polanica-Zdrój,
Bystrzyca Kłodzka,
Kudowa-Zdrój,
Lądek-Zdrój,
Międzylesie,
Radków,
Stronie Śląskie and
Szczytna
Szczytna () is a town in Kłodzko County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the administrative district (gmina) called Gmina Szczytna, close to the Czech Republic, Czech border. It is located in the historic K ...
. (The suffix ''Zdrój'' appearing in several of these names means "
spa".)
As of 2019 the total population of the county was 158,600.
Neighbouring counties
Kłodzko County is bordered by
Wałbrzych County to the north-west,
Dzierżoniów County to the north and
Ząbkowice Śląskie County to the north-east. It also borders the
Czech Republic
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to the east, south and west.
Administrative division
The county is subdivided into 14
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, six 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