Key facts
- Country
- Poland
- Voivodeship
- Lower Silesian
- Seat
- Legnica
- Gminas
- Total 8 (incl. 1 urban) Chojnów Gmina Chojnów Gmina Krotoszyce Gmina Kunice Gmina Legnickie Pole Gmina Milkowice Gmina Prochowice Gmina Ruja
- Total
- 744.6 km (287.5 sq mi)
- Density
- 74.29/km (192.4/sq mi)
- Urban
- 16,957
- Rural
- 38,361
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Car plates
- DLE
- Website
- http://www.powiat-legnicki.eu
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- powiat
- Country
- Poland
- Located in
- Lower Silesian Voivodeship
- Contains
- Gmina Ruja
- Capital
- Legnica
- Population
- 54990
- Area
- 744.6
- Shares border with
- Bolesławiec County
- Official website
- www.powiat-legnicki.eu
- Image
- Panorama Rynku.jpg
- Licence plate code
- DLE
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- Commons category
- Powiat legnicki
- topic's main category
- Category:Legnica County
- Commons gallery
- Powiat legnicki
- postal code
- 59-220
- P6482
- Legnica County
- topic has template
- Template:Legnica County
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Encyclopedic overview
Legnica County (Polish: powiat legnicki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, south-western Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. The county covers an area of 744.6 square kilometres (287.5 sq mi). Its administrative seat is the city of Legnica, although this city is not part of the county (it forms a separate city county, which is an enclave within Legnica County). The only towns in Legnica County are Chojnów and Prochowice.
As at 2019 the total population of the county is 55,318, out of which the population of Chojnów is 13,355, the population of Prochowice is 3,602, and the rural population is 38,361. The majority of the population is polish but there is a small German minority at 0.02% of the population mostly in Koiszków (Koischkau).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Legnica County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.