Key facts
- Country
- Poland
- Voivodeship
- Silesian
- Seat
- Racibórz
- Gminas
- Total 8 (incl. 1 urban) Racibórz Gmina Kornowac Gmina Krzanowice Gmina Krzyżanowice Gmina Kuźnia Raciborska Gmina Nędza Gmina Pietrowice Wielkie Gmina Rudnik
- Total
- 543.98 km (210.03 sq mi)
- Density
- 199.25/km (516.06/sq mi)
- Urban
- 62,294
- Rural
- 46,094
- Car plates
- SRC
- Website
- http://www.powiatraciborski.pl
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- powiat
- Country
- Poland
- Contains
- Gmina Krzanowice
- Capital
- Racibórz
- Population
- 99635
- Area
- 543.98
- Shares border with
- Rybnik
- Official website
- www.powiatraciborski.pl
- Image
- Pejzaż Górek Śląskich.jpg
- Licence plate code
- SRC
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- topic's main category
- Category:Racibórz County
- Commons category
- Powiat raciborski
- twinned administrative body
- Rendsburg
- postal code
- 47-400
- native label
- Powiat raciborski
- P6482
- Racibórz County
- topic has template
- Template:Racibórz County
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Encyclopedic overview
Racibórz County (Polish: powiat raciborski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland, on the Czech border. 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 Racibórz, which lies 58 kilometres (36 mi) west of the regional capital Katowice. The county also contains the towns of Kuźnia Raciborska, lying 16 km (10 mi) north of Racibórz, and Krzanowice, 11 km (7 mi) south-west of Racibórz.
The county covers an area of 543.98 square kilometres (210.0 sq mi). As of 2019 its total population is 108,388, out of which the population of Racibórz is 54,778, that of Kuźnia Raciborska is 5,359, that of Krzanowice is 2,157, and the rural population is 46,094.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Racibórz County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.