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Oława 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
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 was 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. The county covers an area of . Its administrative seat is the town of
Oława
Oława (, , ) is a historic town in south-western Poland with 33,029 inhabitants (2019). It is situated in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, within the Wrocław metropolitan area. It is the seat of Oława County and of the smaller administrative distri ...
, and its only other town is
Jelcz-Laskowice.
As of 2019 the total population of the county is 76,723, out of which the population of Oława is 33,029,
that of Jelcz-Laskowice is 15,803, and the rural population is 27,891.
Neighbouring counties
Oława County is bordered by
Oleśnica County to the north,
Namysłów County
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Namysłów County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Opole Voivodeship, south-western Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 19 ...
and
Brzeg County to the east,
Strzelin County
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Strzelin County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, south-western Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms pass ...
to the south-west, and
Wrocław County to the north-west.
Administrative division
The county is subdivided into four
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 two rural). These are listed in the following table, in descending order of population.
References
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Land counties of Lower Silesian Voivodeship