Key facts
- Country
- Poland
- Voivodeship
- Podlaskie
- Seat
- Sokółka
- Gminas
- Total 10 Gmina Dąbrowa Białostocka Gmina Janów Gmina Korycin Gmina Krynki Gmina Kuźnica Gmina Nowy Dwór Gmina Sidra Gmina Sokółka Gmina Suchowola Gmina Szudziałowo
- Total
- 2,054.42 km (793.22 sq mi)
- Density
- 32.639/km (84.536/sq mi)
- Urban
- 28,242
- Rural
- 38,813
- Car plates
- BSK
- Website
- https://www.sokolka-powiat.pl
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- powiat
- Country
- Poland
- Located in
- Podlaskie Voivodeship
- Contains
- Gmina Dąbrowa Białostocka
- Capital
- Sokółka
- Population
- 61668
- Area
- 2054.42
- Shares border with
- Augustów County
- Official website
- www.sokolka-powiat.pl
- Image
- SM Dąbrowa Białostocka Wiatrak 2020 (13).jpg
- Licence plate code
- BSK
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- Commons category
- Powiat sokólski
- topic's main category
- Category:Sokółka County
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Sokółka County
- postal code
- 16-100
- native label
- Powiat sokólski
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Encyclopedic overview
Sokółka County (Polish: powiat sokólski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Podlaskie Voivodeship, north-eastern Poland, on the border with Belarus. It was created on 1 January 1999 as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Sokółka, which lies 39 kilometres (24 mi) north-east of the regional capital Białystok. The county also contains the towns of Dąbrowa Białostocka, lying 30 km (19 mi) north of Sokółka, Krynki, lying 24 km (15 mi) south-east of Sokółka, and Suchowola, 33 km (21 mi) north-west of Sokółka.
The county covers an area of 2,054.42 square kilometres (793.2 sq mi). As of 2019 its total population is 67,055, out of which the population of Sokółka is 18,134, that of Dąbrowa Białostocka is 5,520, that of Krynki is 2,405, that of Suchowola is 2,183, and the rural population is 38,813.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sokółka County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.