Key facts
- Country
- Poland
- Voivodeship
- Lesser Poland
- Seat
- Wadowice
- Gminas
- Total 10 Gmina Andrychów Gmina Brzeźnica Gmina Kalwaria Zebrzydowska Gmina Lanckorona Gmina Mucharz Gmina Spytkowice Gmina Stryszów Gmina Tomice Gmina Wadowice Gmina Wieprz
- Total
- 645.74 km (249.32 sq mi)
- Density
- 238.96/km (618.90/sq mi)
- Urban
- 45,343
- Rural
- 108,961
- Car plates
- KWA
- Website
- http://www.starostwo.wadowice.pl
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Population
- 157651
- Area
- 645.74
- Official website
- www.starostwo.wadowice.pl
- Image
- 20140906 Pałac w Paszkówce 4599.jpg
- Licence plate code
- KWA
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- Commons category
- Powiat wadowicki
- postal code
- 34-100
- P6482
- Wadowice County
- P11012
- Eugnorisma
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Wadowice County (Polish: powiat wadowicki) 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 is the town of Wadowice, the birthplace of Pope John Paul II, which lies 38 kilometres (24 mi) south-west of the regional capital Kraków. The county also contains the towns of Andrychów, lying 13 km (8 mi) west of Wadowice, and Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, 14 km (9 mi) east of Wadowice.
The county covers an area of 645.74 square kilometres (249.3 sq mi). As of 2006 its total population is 154,304, out of which the population of Andrychów is 21,691, that of Wadowice is 19,149, that of Kalwaria Zebrzydowska is 4,503, and the rural population is 108,961.