__NOTOC__ Nowy Dwór Gdański County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (

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) in

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, northern

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, on the

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coast. It came into being on 1 January 1999 as a result of the

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passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is

Nowy Dwór Gdański Nowy Dwor Gdanski (; ; formerly ) is a town in Poland on the Tuja river in the Żuławy Wiślane Żuławy Wiślane (plural from "żuława", meaning fen), in English known as the Vistula Fens, is the alluvial delta area of the river Vistula, in ...

, which lies south-east of the regional capital

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. The only other town in the county is

Krynica Morska Krynica Morska () is a town and coextensive municipality (''gmina'') on the Vistula Spit in northern Poland with 1,172 inhabitants as of 2023. It has been part of Nowy Dwór Gdański County in Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999; previously it was ...

, lying north-east of Nowy Dwór Gdański, on the

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. The county covers an area of . As of 2019 its total population is 35,656, out of which the population of Nowy Dwór Gdański is 9,905, that of Krynica Morska is 1,303, and the rural population is 24,448.
''Nowy Dwór Gdański County on a map of the counties of Pomeranian Voivodeship'' Nowy Dwór Gdański County is bordered by the

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to the east,

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to the south-east,

Malbork County __NOTOC__ Malbork County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. ...

to the south,

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and the city of

to the west, and the

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to the north. It also has a short land border with

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(

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) to the north-east, on the Vistula Spit.

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, one urban-rural and three rural). These are listed in the following table, in descending order of population.

References

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