Key facts
- Country
- Poland
- Voivodeship
- Lesser Poland
- Seat
- Miechów
- Gminas
- Total 7 Gmina Charsznica Gmina Gołcza Gmina Kozłów Gmina Książ Wielki Gmina Miechów Gmina Racławice Gmina Słaboszów
- Total
- 676.73 km (261.29 sq mi)
- Density
- 72.330/km (187.33/sq mi)
- Urban
- 11,612
- Rural
- 37,336
- Car plates
- KMI
- Website
- http://www.miechow.pl
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Miechów County (Polish: powiat miechowski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, southern Poland. It came into being on 1 January 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and only town is Miechów, which lies 34 kilometres (21 mi) north of the regional capital Kraków.
The county covers an area of 676.73 square kilometres (261.3 sq mi). As of 2019 its total population is 48,948, out of which the population of Miechów is 11,612 and the rural population is 37,336.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Miechów County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.