__NOTOC__
Wyszków County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (
) 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
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 originally existed from 1956 until the abolition of the powiats in 1975, but was re-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, which reintroduced the powiats and created 16 large
voivodeships. The administrative seat and only town in the county is
Wyszków, which lies north-east of
Warsaw
Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at ...
.
The county covers an area of . As of 2019 its total population is 74,094, out of which the population of Wyszków is 26,905, and the rural population is 47,189.
Neighbouring counties
Wyszków County is bordered by
Ostrołęka County to the north,
Ostrów Mazowiecka County to the north-east,
Węgrów County to the east,
Wołomin County to the south,
Legionowo County and
Pułtusk County
__NOTOC__
Pułtusk 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 1998 ...
to the west, and
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 north-west.
Administrative division
The county is subdivided into six
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 five rural). These are listed in the following table, in descending order of population.
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wyszkow County
Land counties of Masovian Voivodeship