Key facts
- Country
- Poland
- Voivodeship
- Lesser Poland
- Seat
- Kraków
- Total
- 1,229.62 km (474.76 sq mi)
- Density
- 226.264/km (586.022/sq mi)
- Urban
- 44,926
- Rural
- 233,293
- Car plates
- KRA
- Website
- http://www.powiat.krakow.pl
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- powiat
- Country
- Poland
- Located in
- Lesser Poland Voivodeship
- Contains
- Gmina Skała
- Capital
- Kraków
- Population
- 301357
- Area
- 1229.62
- Shares border with
- Proszowice County
- Official website
- powiat.krakow.pl
- Image
- Kraków County Office, 1935 design. Fryderyk Tadanier and Stefan Strojek, 18a-20 Juliusza Słowackiego Alley, Kraków, Poland.jpg
- Licence plate code
- KRA
Show 5 more facts
- topic's main category
- Category:Kraków County
- Commons category
- Powiat krakowski
- postal code
- 30-037
- P6482
- Kraków County
- inception
- 1999-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Kraków County (Polish: powiat krakowski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lesser Poland 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 Kraków, although the city is not part of the county (it constitutes a separate city with powiat rights). The county contains five towns: Skawina, 12 km (7 mi) south-west of Kraków, Krzeszowice, 24 km (15 mi) west of Kraków, Słomniki, 24 km (15 mi) north-east of Kraków, Skała, 20 km (12 mi) north of Kraków, and Świątniki Górne, 15 km (9 mi) south of Kraków.
The county covers an area of 1,229.62 square kilometres (474.8 sq mi). As of 2019 its total population is 278,219, out of which the population of Skawina is 24,340, that of Krzeszowice is 10,014, that of Słomniki is 4,343, that of Skała is 3,798, that of Świątniki Górne is 2,431, and the rural population is 233,293.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kraków County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.