__NOTOC__ Mińsk County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (

powiat A ''powiat'' (; ) is the second-level unit of local government and administration in Poland, equivalent to a county, district or prefecture (Local administrative unit, LAU-1 ormerly Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics, NUTS-4 ...

) in

Masovian Voivodeship Masovian Voivodeship or Mazowieckie Province (, ) and any variation thereof, is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship (province) in east-central Poland, containing Poland's capital Warsaw. Masovian Voivodeship has an area of and had a 2019 po ...

, east-central

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. It was (re)created 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 Mińsk Mazowiecki, which lies east of

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. The county contains three other towns: Sulejówek, west of Mińsk Mazowiecki, Halinów, west of Mińsk Mazowiecki, and Kałuszyn, east of Mińsk Mazowiecki. The county covers an area of . As of 2019 its total population is 150,480, out of which the population of Mińsk Mazowiecki is 40,836, that of Sulejówek is 19,766, that of Halinów is 3,739, that of Kałuszyn is 2,899, and the rural population is 82,638.

Neighbouring counties

Mińsk County is bordered by Węgrów County to the north-east, Siedlce County to the east, Garwolin County to the south, Otwock County and the city of

to the west, and Wołomin County to the north-west.

Administrative division

The county is subdivided into 13

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s (two urban, two urban-rural and nine rural). These are listed in the following table, in descending order of population.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Minsk County Land counties of Masovian Voivodeship