Key facts
- Country
- Poland
- Voivodeship
- Podlaskie
- Seat
- Mońki
- Gminas
- Total 7 Gmina Goniądz Gmina Jasionówka Gmina Jaświły Gmina Knyszyn Gmina Krypno Gmina Mońki Gmina Trzcianne
- Total
- 1,382.39 km (533.74 sq mi)
- Density
- 29.310/km (75.913/sq mi)
- Urban
- 14,548
- Rural
- 25,970
- Car plates
- BMN
- Website
- http://www.monki.pl/
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- powiat
- Country
- Poland
- Located in
- Podlaskie Voivodeship
- Contains
- Gmina Trzcianne
- Capital
- Mońki
- Population
- 37543
- Area
- 1382.39
- Shares border with
- Augustów County
- Official website
- www.monki.pl
- Image
- Mońki. Starostwo Powiatowe (2015).jpg
- Licence plate code
- BMN
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- Commons category
- Powiat moniecki
- topic's main category
- Category:Mońki County
- postal code
- 19-100
- native label
- Powiat moniecki
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Encyclopedic overview
Mońki County (Polish: powiat moniecki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Podlaskie Voivodeship, northeastern 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 Mońki, which lies 40 kilometres (25 mi) northwest of the regional capital Białystok. The county also contains the towns of Knyszyn, lying 13 km (8 mi) southeast of Mońki, and Goniądz, 11 km (7 mi) northwest of Mońki.
The county covers an area of 1,382.39 square kilometres (533.7 sq mi). As of 2019 its total population is 40,518, out of which the population of Mońki is 9,986, that of Knyszyn is 2,748, that of Goniądz is 1,814, and the rural population is 25,970.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mońki County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.