Key facts
- Country
- Poland
- Voivodeship
- Silesian
- Seat
- Cieszyn
- Gminas
- Total 12 (incl. 3 urban) Cieszyn Ustroń Wisła Gmina Brenna Gmina Chybie Gmina Dębowiec Gmina Goleszów Gmina Hażlach Gmina Istebna Gmina Skoczów Gmina Strumień Gmina Zebrzydowice
- Starosta
- Mieczysław Szczurek
- Total
- 730.2 km (281.9 sq mi)
- Density
- 244.0/km (631.9/sq mi)
- Urban
- 79,821
- Rural
- 98,324
- Car plates
- SCI
- Website
- http://www.powiat.cieszyn.pl/
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Portal Powiatu Cieszyńskiego
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Encyclopedic overview
Cieszyn County (Polish: powiat cieszyński) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland, on the Czech and Slovak border. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998.
The county's administrative seat and largest town is Cieszyn, which lies on the Czech border 62 kilometres (39 mi) south-west of the regional capital Katowice. The county also contains four other towns: Ustroń, 14 km (9 mi) east of Cieszyn, Skoczów, 15 km (9 mi) north-east of Cieszyn, Wisła, 20 km (12 mi) south-east of Cieszyn, and Strumień, 23 km (14 mi) north-east of Cieszyn.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cieszyn County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.