Key facts
- Country
- Poland
- Voivodeship
- Greater Poland
- Seat
- Krotoszyn
- Gminas
- Total 6 (incl. 1 urban) Sulmierzyce Gmina Kobylin Gmina Koźmin Wielkopolski Gmina Krotoszyn Gmina Rozdrażew Gmina Zduny
- Total
- 714.23 km (275.77 sq mi)
- Density
- 107.94/km (279.56/sq mi)
- Urban
- 46,482
- Rural
- 30,610
- Car plates
- PKR
- Website
- http://www.starostwo.krotoszyn.pl
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- powiat
- Country
- Poland
- Located in
- Greater Poland Voivodeship
- Contains
- Gmina Rozdrażew
- Capital
- Krotoszyn
- Population
- 75123
- Area
- 714.23
- Shares border with
- Milicz County
- Official website
- www.starostwo.krotoszyn.pl
- Image
- SM Krotoszyn Sienkiewicza 5 2019 (2).jpg
- Licence plate code
- PKR
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- Commons category
- Powiat krotoszyński
- topic's main category
- Category:Krotoszyn County
- postal code
- 63-700
- P6482
- Krotoszyn County
- topic has template
- Template:Krotoszyn County
- P11012
- Brezje pri Lipoglavu
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Encyclopedic overview
Krotoszyn County (Polish: powiat krotoszyński) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Greater Poland Voivodeship, west-central Poland. 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 Krotoszyn, which lies 88 kilometres (55 mi) south-east of the regional capital Poznań. The county contains four other towns: Koźmin Wielkopolski, 16 km (10 mi) north of Krotoszyn, Zduny, 6 km (4 mi) south-west of Krotoszyn, Kobylin, 14 km (9 mi) west of Krotoszyn, and Sulmierzyce, 12 km (7 mi) south-east of Krotoszyn.
The county covers an area of 714.23 square kilometres (275.8 sq mi). As of 2006 its total population is 77,092, out of which the population of Krotoszyn is 29,421, that of Koźmin Wielkopolski is 6,707, that of Zduny is 4,498, that of Kobylin is 3,084, that of Sulmierzyce is 2,772, and the rural population is 30,610.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Krotoszyn County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.