Key facts
- Country
- Poland
- Voivodeship
- Lesser Poland
- Seat
- Oświęcim
- Gminas
- Total 9 (incl. 1 urban) Oświęcim Gmina Brzeszcze Gmina Chełmek Gmina Kęty Gmina Osiek Gmina Oświęcim Gmina Polanka Wielka Gmina Przeciszów Gmina Zator
- Total
- 406.03 km (156.77 sq mi)
- Density
- 377.78/km (978.45/sq mi)
- Urban
- 84,752
- Rural
- 68,638
- Car plates
- KOS
- Website
- http://www.powiat.oswiecim.pl
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- powiat
- Country
- Poland
- Located in
- Lesser Poland Voivodeship
- Contains
- Gmina Kęty
- Capital
- Oświęcim
- Population
- 148899
- Area
- 406.03
- Shares border with
- Jaworzno
- Official website
- www.powiat.oswiecim.pl
- Image
- Zamek zbliżenie.JPG
- Licence plate code
- KOS
Show 6 more facts
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Oświęcim County
- Commons category
- Powiat oświęcimski
- topic's main category
- Category:Oświęcim County
- postal code
- 32-600
- P11012
- Damon longispinatus
- P12749
- Zamir
Sources (6)
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Encyclopedic overview
Oświęcim County (Polish: powiat oświęcimski) 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 and largest town is Oświęcim, which lies 51 kilometres (32 mi) west of the regional capital Kraków. The county contains four other towns: Kęty, 17 km (11 mi) south of Oświęcim, Brzeszcze, 9 km (6 mi) south-west of Oświęcim, Chełmek, 8 km (5 mi) north of Oświęcim, and Zator, 16 km (10 mi) east of Oświęcim.
The county covers an area of 406.03 square kilometres (156.8 sq mi). As of 2006, its total population is 153,390, out of which the population of Oświęcim is 40,979, that of Kęty is 19,252, that of Brzeszcze is 11,730, that of Chełmek is 9,065, that of Zator is 3,726, and the rural population is 68,638.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oświęcim County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.