Key facts
- Country
- Poland
- Voivodeship
- Podlaskie
- Seat
- Suwałki
- Gminas
- Total 9 Gmina Bakałarzewo Gmina Filipów Gmina Jeleniewo Gmina Przerośl Gmina Raczki Gmina Rutka-Tartak Gmina Suwałki Gmina Szypliszki Gmina Wiżajny
- Total
- 1,307.31 km (504.76 sq mi)
- Density
- 27.300/km (70.706/sq mi)
- Car plates
- BSU
- Website
- http://www.powiat.suwalski.pl/
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- powiat
- Country
- Poland
- Located in
- Białystok Voivodeship
- Contains
- Gmina Wiżajny
- Capital
- Suwałki
- Population
- 34678
- Area
- 1307.31
- Shares border with
- Gołdap County
- Official website
- www.powiat.suwalski.pl
- Image
- Muzeum im. Marii Konopnickiej w Suwałkach (1).jpg
- Licence plate code
- BSU
Show 5 more facts
- topic's main category
- Category:Suwałki County
- Commons category
- Powiat suwalski
- inception
- 1999-00-00
- postal code
- 16-400
- different from
- Suwalszczyzna
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Encyclopedic overview
Suwałki County (Polish: powiat suwalski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Podlaskie Voivodeship, north-eastern Poland, on the Lithuanian border. 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 Suwałki, although the city is not part of the county (it constitutes a separate city county); there are no towns within the county.
The county covers an area of 1,307.31 square kilometres (504.8 sq mi). As of 2019 its total population is 35,689. It includes the protected area known as Suwałki Landscape Park.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Suwałki County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.