Key facts
- Country
- Poland
- Voivodeship
- Silesian
- Seat
- Bielsko-Biała
- Gminas
- Total 10 (incl. 1 urban) Szczyrk Gmina Bestwina Gmina Buczkowice Gmina Czechowice-Dziedzice Gmina Jasienica Gmina Jaworze Gmina Kozy Gmina Porąbka Gmina Wilamowice Gmina Wilkowice
- Starosta
- Andrzej Płonka
- Total
- 457.2 km (176.5 sq mi)
- Density
- 361.7/km (936.8/sq mi)
- Urban
- 44,760
- Rural
- 120,614
- Car plates
- SBI
- Website
- http://www.powiat.bielsko.pl/
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Bielsko County (Polish: powiat bielski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat is the city of Bielsko-Biała, although the city is not part of the county (it constitutes a separate city county). The county contains three towns: Czechowice-Dziedzice, 13 km (8 mi) north-west of Bielsko-Biała, Szczyrk, 14 km (9 mi) south of Bielsko-Biała, and Wilamowice, 12 km (7 mi) north-east of Bielsko-Biała.
The county covers an area of 457.23 square kilometres (176.5 sq mi). As of 2019 its total population is 165,374, out of which the population of Czechowice-Dziedzice is 35,926, that of Szczyrk is 5,734, that of Wilamowice is 3,100, and the rural population is 120,614.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bielsko County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.