Key facts
- Country
- Poland
- Voivodeship
- Pomeranian
- Seat
- Lębork
- Gminas
- Total 5 (incl. 2 urban) Łeba Lębork Gmina Cewice Gmina Nowa Wieś Lęborska Gmina Wicko
- Total
- 706.99 km (272.97 sq mi)
- Density
- 93.631/km (242.50/sq mi)
- Urban
- 38,977
- Rural
- 27,219
- Car plates
- GLE
- Website
- http://www.powiat-lebork.com
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Lębork County (Kashubian: Lãbòrsczi kréz, Polish: powiat lęborski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland, on the Baltic coast. 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 Lębork, which lies 61 kilometres (38 mi) west of the regional capital Gdańsk. The only other town in the county is Łeba, lying 29 km (18 mi) north-west of Lębork.
The county covers an area of 706.99 square kilometres (273.0 sq mi). As of 2019 its total population is 66,196, out of which the population of Lębork is 35,333, that of Łeba is 3,644, and the rural population is 27,219.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lębork County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.