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Namysłów County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (
) in
Opole Voivodeship
Opole Voivodeship ( , , ), is the smallest and least populated voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship (province) of Poland. The province's name derives from that of the region's capital and largest city, Opole. It is part of Silesia. A relatively lar ...
, south-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 ...
. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the
Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and only town is
Namysłów, which lies north of the regional capital, which is the city of
Opole.
The county covers an area of . As of 2019 its total population is 42,692, out of which the population of Namysłów is 16,557 and the rural population is 27,400.
Neighbouring counties
Namysłów County is bordered by
Kępno County to the north-east,
Kluczbork County to the east,
Opole County to the south,
Brzeg County to the south-west, and
Oława County and
Oleśnica County to the west.
Administrative division
The county is subdivided into five
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-rural and four rural). These are listed in the following table, in descending order of population.
References
External links
Portal Namyslowianie.plLocal News Service in Namyslow.
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Land counties of Opole Voivodeship