Key facts
- Country
- Poland
- Voivodeship
- Podlaskie
- Seat
- Łomża
- Gminas
- Total 9 Gmina Jedwabne Gmina Łomża Gmina Miastkowo Gmina Nowogród Gmina Piątnica Gmina Przytuły Gmina Śniadowo Gmina Wizna Gmina Zbójna
- Total
- 1,353.93 km (522.76 sq mi)
- Density
- 37.605/km (97.395/sq mi)
- Urban
- 3,781
- Rural
- 47,133
- Car plates
- BLM
- Website
- https://www.powiatlomzynski.pl
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Powiat Łomżyński
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Encyclopedic overview
Łomża County (Polish: powiat łomżyński) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Podlaskie Voivodeship, north-eastern 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 Łomża, although the city is not part of the county (it constitutes a separate city county). The only towns in Łomża County are Nowogród, which lies 16 km (10 mi) north-west of Łomża, and Jedwabne, 20 km (12 mi) north-east of Łomża.
The county covers an area of 1,353.93 square kilometres (522.8 sq mi). As of 2019 its total population is 50,914, out of which the population of Nowogród is 2,155, that of Jedwabne is 1,626, and the rural population is 47,133.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Łomża County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.