Zamość County
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administrative division (powiat) in the Lublin Voivodeship of southeastern Poland
Key facts
- Country
- Poland
- Voivodeship
- Lublin
- Seat
- Zamość
- Gminas
- Total 15 Gmina Adamów Gmina Grabowiec Gmina Komarów-Osada Gmina Krasnobród Gmina Łabunie Gmina Miączyn Gmina Nielisz Gmina Radecznica Gmina Sitno Gmina Skierbieszów Gmina Stary Zamość Gmina Sułów Gmina Szczebrzeszyn Gmina Zamość Gmina Zwierzyniec
- Total
- 1,872.27 km (722.89 sq mi)
- Density
- 57.3854/km (148.628/sq mi)
- Urban
- 11,257
- Rural
- 96,184
- Car plates
- LZA
- Website
- http://www.starostwo.zamosc.pl/
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Zamość County (Polish: powiat zamojski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lublin Voivodeship, eastern Poland. It was established on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat is the city of Zamość, although the city is not part of the county (it constitutes a separate city county). The county contains three towns: Szczebrzeszyn, which lies 21 km (13 mi) west of Zamość, Zwierzyniec, which lies 24 km (15 mi) south-west of Zamość, and Krasnobród, 22 km (14 mi) south of Zamość.
The county covers an area of 1,872.27 square kilometres (722.9 sq mi). As of 2019, its total population is 107,441, including a population of 4,991 in Szczebrzeszyn, 3,175 in Zwierzyniec, 3,091 in Krasnobród, and a rural population of 96,184.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zamość County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.