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Toruń County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (
) in
Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship * Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship is one of the 16 voivodeships (provinces) in Poland.
* Kuyavian-Pomeranian is one of 13 Polish constituency of the European Parliament.
* Kuyavian-Pomeranian Regional Assembly is the regional legislature of t ...
, north-central
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 passed in 1998. Its administrative seat is the city of
Toruń, although the city is not part of the county (it constitutes a separate city county). The only town in Toruń County is
Chełmża, which lies nineteen kilometers (twelve miles) north of Toruń.
The county covers an area of . As of 2019 its total population is 107,641, out of which the population of Chełmża is 14,503 and the rural population is 93,138.
Neighboring counties
Apart from the city of
Toruń, Toruń County is also bordered by
Chełmno County to the north,
Wąbrzeźno County to the north-east,
Golub-Dobrzyń County and
Lipno County
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Lipno County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-central Poland. It was formed on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed i ...
to the east,
Aleksandrów County to the south,
Inowrocław County to the south-west, and the city of
Bydgoszcz and
Bydgoszcz County to the west.
Administrative division
The county is subdivided into nine
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 and eight rural). These are listed in the following table, in descending order of population.
References
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Land counties of Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship