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

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) 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 came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the

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passed in 1998. Its administrative seat is the city of Ostrołęka, although the city is not part of the county (it constitutes a separate city county). The only town in Ostrołęka County is Myszyniec, which lies north of Ostrołęka. The county covers an area of . As of 2019 its total population is 88,717, out of which the population of Myszyniec is 3,408 and the rural population is 85,309.

Neighbouring counties

Apart from the city of Ostrołęka, Ostrołęka County is also bordered by

Pisz County __NOTOC__ Pisz County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, northern Poland. It came into being on 1 January 1999 as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 199 ...

and

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

to the north,

Łomża County __NOTOC__ Łomża County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Podlaskie Voivodeship, north-eastern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 19 ...

to the east, Ostrów Mazowiecka County to the south-east,

Wyszków County __NOTOC__ Wyszków County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland. It originally existed from 1956 until the abolition of the powiats in 1975, but was re-created on Janua ...

to the south,

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

to the south-west,

Przasnysz County __NOTOC__ Przasnysz County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland. It came into being on 1 January 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 199 ...

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

Administrative division

The county is subdivided into 11

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 10 rural). These are listed in the following table, in descending order of population.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ostroleka County Land counties of Masovian Voivodeship