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Lubań 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 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. The county covers an area of . Its administrative seat and largest town is
Lubań
Lubań (; ), sometimes called Lubań Śląski (; , ); is a town in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in southwest Poland. It is the administrative seat of Lubań County and also of the smaller Gmina Lubań (although it is not part of the territory ...
. The county also contains the towns of
Olszyna,
Leśna and
Świeradów-Zdrój.
As at 2006 the total population of the county is 54,493, out of which the population of Lubań is 21,087, that of Leśna is 4,439, that of Olszyna is 4,348, that of Świeradów-Zdrój is 4,147, and the rural population is 20,472.
Neighbouring counties
Lubań County is bordered by
Zgorzelec County
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Zgorzelec County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. It ...
to the west,
Bolesławiec County
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Bolesławiec County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, southwestern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms pas ...
to the north-east and
Lwówek Śląski County
Lwówek is a town in Nowy Tomyśl County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland, with 2,961 inhabitants (2010).
History
Town rights were granted by King Władysław II Jagiełło. The town was known as Lwów, before the name was changed to the cu ...
to the east. It also borders the
Czech Republic
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to the south.
Administrative division
The county is subdivided into seven
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, two 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