Key facts
- Country
- Poland
- Voivodeship
- Silesian
- Seat
- Myszków
- Gminas
- Total 5 (incl. 1 urban) Myszków Gmina Koziegłowy Gmina Niegowa Gmina Poraj Gmina Żarki
- Total
- 478.62 km (184.80 sq mi)
- Density
- 148.26/km (383.99/sq mi)
- Urban
- 38,661
- Rural
- 32,298
- Car plates
- SMY
- Website
- http://www.powiatmyszkowski.pl/
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- powiat
- Country
- Poland
- Located in
- Silesian Voivodeship
- Contains
- Gmina Koziegłowy
- Capital
- Myszków
- Population
- 67817
- Area
- 478.62
- Shares border with
- Zawiercie County
- Official website
- www.powiatmyszkowski.pl
- Image
- Bobolice R44755 z 1955-06-14.jpg
- Licence plate code
- SMY
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- postal code
- 42-300
- topic's main category
- Category:Myszków County
- Commons category
- Powiat myszkowski
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Encyclopedic overview
Myszków County (Polish: powiat myszkowski) 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 and largest town is Myszków, which lies 44 kilometres (27 mi) north-east of the regional capital Katowice. The county also contains the towns of Żarki, lying 7 km (4 mi) north-east of Myszków, and Koziegłowy, 11 km (7 mi) west of Myszków.
The county covers an area of 478.62 square kilometres (184.8 sq mi). As of 2019 its total population is 70,959, out of which the population of Myszków is 31,650, that of Żarki is 4,556, that of Koziegłowy is 2,455, and the rural population is 32,298.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Myszków County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.