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Strzelin 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. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the
Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. The county covers an area of . Its administrative seat is the town of
Strzelin, and its only other town is
Wiązów.
As of 2019 the total population of the county is 43,713, out of which the population of Strzelin is 12,460, that of Wiązów is 2,241, and the rural population is 29,012.
Neighbouring counties
Strzelin County is bordered by
Wrocław County to the north,
Oława County to the north-east,
Brzeg County to the east,
Nysa County to the south,
Ząbkowice Śląskie County to the south-west and
Dzierżoniów 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 (two urban-rural and three rural). These are listed in the following table, in descending order of population.
References
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Land counties of Lower Silesian Voivodeship