Key facts
- Country
- Poland
- Voivodeship
- Warmian-Masurian
- Seat
- Kętrzyn
- Gminas
- Total 6 (incl. 1 urban) Kętrzyn Gmina Barciany Gmina Kętrzyn Gmina Korsze Gmina Reszel Gmina Srokowo
- Total
- 1,212.97 km (468.33 sq mi)
- Density
- 54.548/km (141.28/sq mi)
- Urban
- 37,730
- Rural
- 28,435
- Car plates
- NKE
- Website
- http://www.starostwo.ketrzyn.pl/
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- powiat
- Country
- Poland
- Located in
- Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship
- Contains
- Gmina Korsze
- Capital
- Kętrzyn
- Population
- 57445
- Area
- 1212.97
- Shares border with
- Bartoszyce County
- Official website
- www.starostwo.ketrzyn.pl
- Image
- Ketrzyn widok z wiezy bazyliki 3.jpg
- Licence plate code
- NKE
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- postal code
- 11-400
- Commons category
- Powiat kętrzyński
- topic's main category
- Category:Kętrzyn County
- twinned administrative body
- Kaliningrad
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- P6482
- Kętrzyn County
- P11012
- San José
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Encyclopedic overview
Kętrzyn County (Polish: powiat kętrzyński) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, northern Poland, on the border with Russia. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Kętrzyn (former Rastembork), which lies 88 kilometres (55 mi) north-east of the regional capital Olsztyn. The county also contains the towns of Reszel, lying 16 km (10 mi) west of Kętrzyn, and Korsze, 19 km (12 mi) north-west of Kętrzyn.
The county covers an area of 1,212.97 square kilometres (468.3 sq mi). As of 2006 its total population is 66,165, out of which the population of Kętrzyn is 28,000, that of Reszel is 5,098, that of Korsze is 4,632, and the rural population is 28,435.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kętrzyn County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.