Key facts
- Country
- Poland
- Voivodeship
- Świętokrzyskie
- Seat
- Starachowice
- Gminas
- Total 5 (incl. 1 urban) Starachowice Gmina Brody Gmina Mirzec Gmina Pawłów Gmina Wąchock
- Total
- 523.27 km (202.04 sq mi)
- Density
- 171.85/km (445.09/sq mi)
- Urban
- 51,412
- Rural
- 38,513
- Car plates
- TST
- Website
- http://www.powiat.starachowice.pl
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- powiat
- Country
- Poland
- Located in
- Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship
- Contains
- Gmina Wąchock
- Capital
- Starachowice
- Population
- 84081
- Area
- 523.27
- Shares border with
- Lipsko County
- Official website
- www.powiat.starachowice.pl
- Image
- Starostwo Powiatowe w Starachowicach (front).jpg
- Licence plate code
- TST
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- Commons category
- Powiat starachowicki
- topic's main category
- Category:Starachowice County
- postal code
- 27-200
- inception
- 1999-00-00
- native label
- Powiat starachowicki
- P6482
- Starachowice County
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Encyclopedic overview
Starachowice County (Polish: powiat starachowicki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, south-central 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 Starachowice, which lies 37 kilometres (23 mi) north-east of the regional capital Kielce. The only other town in the county is Wąchock, lying 5 km (3 mi) north-west of Starachowice.
The county covers an area of 523.27 square kilometres (202.0 sq mi). As of 2019 its total population is 89,925, out of which the population of Starachowice is 48,646, that of Wąchock is 2,766, and the rural population is 38,513.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Starachowice County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.