Official website (http://www.powiatgliwicki.pl/)
Key facts
- Country
- Poland
- Voivodeship
- Silesian
- Seat
- Gliwice
- Gminas
- Total 8 (incl. 2 urban) Knurów Pyskowice Gmina Gierałtowice Gmina Pilchowice Gmina Rudziniec Gmina Sośnicowice Gmina Toszek Gmina Wielowieś
- Total
- 663.35 km (256.12 sq mi)
- Density
- 174.22/km (451.24/sq mi)
- Urban
- 62,261
- Rural
- 53,310
- Car plates
- SGL
- Website
- http://www.powiatgliwicki.pl/
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Official website
Powiat Gliwicki
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- powiat
- Country
- Poland
- Located in
- Silesian Voivodeship
- Contains
- Gmina Sośnicowice
- Capital
- Gliwice
- Population
- 113196
- Area
- 663.35
- Shares border with
- Zabrze
- Official website
- www.powiatgliwicki.pl
- Image
- Zamek w Chudowie 29.10.2023.jpg
- Licence plate code
- SGL
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- Category:Gliwice County
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- Powiat gliwicki
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- Powiat gliwicki
- postal code
- 44-100
- P6482
- Gliwice County
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Encyclopedic overview
Gliwice County (Polish: powiat gliwicki) 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 Gliwice, although the city is not part of the county (it constitutes a separate city county). The county contains four towns: Knurów, 8 km (5 mi) south of Gliwice, Pyskowice, 12 km (7 mi) north of Gliwice, Toszek, 22 km (14 mi) north-west of Gliwice, and Sośnicowice, 10 km (6 mi) west of Gliwice.
The county covers an area of 663.35 square kilometres (256.1 sq mi). As of 2019 its total population is 115,571. The most populated towns are Knurów with 38,310 inhabitants and Pyskowice with 18,432 inhabitants.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gliwice County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.