Key facts
- Country
- Poland
- Voivodeship
- Silesian
- Seat
- Zawiercie
- Gminas
- Total 10 (incl. 2 urban) Poręba Zawiercie Gmina Irządze Gmina Kroczyce Gmina Łazy Gmina Ogrodzieniec Gmina Pilica Gmina Szczekociny Gmina Włodowice Gmina Żarnowiec
- Total
- 1,003.27 km (387.36 sq mi)
- Density
- 117.64/km (304.67/sq mi)
- Urban
- 74,500
- Rural
- 43,520
- Car plates
- SZA
- Website
- http://www.zawiercie.powiat.pl/
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- powiat
- Country
- Poland
- Located in
- Silesian Voivodeship
- Contains
- Gmina Żarnowiec
- Capital
- Zawiercie
- Population
- 112247
- Area
- 1003.27
- Shares border with
- Miechów County
- Official website
- www.zawiercie.powiat.pl
- Image
- A77167 z 17 VI 1967 Zamek Bonerów z XV w., obecnie w ruinie Ogrodzieniec MM.jpg
- Licence plate code
- SZA
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- Commons category
- Powiat zawierciański
- topic's main category
- Category:Zawiercie County
- postal code
- 42-400
- P6482
- Zawiercie County
- topic has template
- Template:Zawiercie County
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Encyclopedic overview
Zawiercie County (Polish: powiat zawierciański) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Silesian 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 and largest town is Zawiercie, which lies 41 kilometres (25 mi) north-east of the regional capital Katowice. The county contains five other towns: Poręba, 6 km (4 mi) west of Zawiercie, Łazy, 8 km (5 mi) south of Zawiercie, Ogrodzieniec, 9 km (6 mi) south-east of Zawiercie, Szczekociny, 33 km (21 mi) north-east of Zawiercie, and Pilica, 18 km (11 mi) east of Zawiercie.
The county covers an area of 1,003.27 square kilometres (387.4 sq mi). As of 2019 its total population was 118,020. The most populated towns are Zawiercie with 49,334 inhabitants and Poręba with 8,525 inhabitants.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zawiercie County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.