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

powiat A ''powiat'' (; ) is the second-level unit of local government and administration in Poland, equivalent to a county, district or prefecture (Local administrative unit, LAU-1 ormerly Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics, NUTS-4 ...

) 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 came into being 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. Its administrative seat is the city of

Włocławek Włocławek (; or ''Alt Lesle'', Yiddish: וולאָצלאַוועק, romanized: ''Vlatzlavek'') is a city in the Kuyavian–Pomeranian Voivodeship in central Poland along the Vistula River, bordered by the Gostynin-Włocławek Landscape Park ...

, although the city is not part of the county (it constitutes a separate city county). The county contains six towns:

Brześć Kujawski Brześć Kujawski (Polish pronunciation: ; ) is a town in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship in central Poland. Once a royal seat of Kuyavia, the town has been the seat of one of two small duchy, duchies into which Kuyavia had been temporarily di ...

, which lies south-west of Włocławek,

Kowal Kowal may refer to: * Kowal (surname), a surname *Kowal (town) Kowal is a town in Włocławek County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, with 3,478 inhabitants (2004). History Kowal was the birthplace of Casimir III the Great, the last P ...

, which lies south-east of Włocławek,

Lubraniec Lubraniec is a town in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship in central Poland, with 3,130 inhabitants (2010). It is located in the historic region of Kuyavia. History Lubraniec was the ancestral seat of the Lubrański noble family. Lubraniec was ...

, which lies south-west of Włocławek,

Izbica Kujawska Izbica Kujawska is a town in central Poland with 2,808 inhabitants (2004). It is situated in the Włocławek County in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in the historic region of Kuyavia. History Izbica was a private town, administratively loc ...

, which lies south-west of Włocławek,

Chodecz Chodecz is a town in Włocławek County in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship in central Poland. It is situated in the historic region of Kuyavia, midway between Lubień Kujawski and Przedecz. It is about north of Łódź, west of Warsaw and s ...

, which lies south of Włocławek, and

Lubień Kujawski Lubień Kujawski () is a town in Włocławek County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in central Poland, with 1,298 inhabitants (2010). History Lubień was a private town, administratively located in the Kowal County in the Brześć Kujawski Voi ...

, south of Włocławek. The county covers an area of . As of 2019 its total population is 86,131, out of which the population of Brześć Kujawski is 4,642, that of Kowal is 3,479, that of Lubraniec is 2,999, that of Izbica Kujawska is 2,609, that of Chodecz is 1,894, that of Lubień Kujawski is 1,391, and the rural population is 69,117.

Neighbouring counties

Besides the city of

, Włocławek County is also bordered by

Lipno County __NOTOC__ 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 north,

Płock County __NOTOC__ Płock 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 east,

Gostynin County __NOTOC__ Gostynin 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 199 ...

to the south-east,

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

and

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

to the south,

Radziejów County __NOTOC__ Radziejów County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms ...

to the west, and

Aleksandrów County __NOTOC__ Aleksandrów County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government refor ...

to the north-west.

Administrative division

The county is subdivided into 13

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, five urban-rural and seven rural). These are listed in the following table, in descending order of population.

Roads

Highway *Autostrada A1/E75 Country Roads * Country Road 1/E75 * Country Road 62 * Country Road 67

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wloclawek County Land counties of Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship