Key facts
- Country
- Poland
- Voivodeship
- Opole
- Seat
- Opole
- Gminas
- Total 13 Gmina Chrząstowice Gmina Dąbrowa Gmina Dobrzeń Wielki Gmina Komprachcice Gmina Łubniany Gmina Murów Gmina Niemodlin Gmina Ozimek Gmina Popielów Gmina Prószków Gmina Tarnów Opolski Gmina Tułowice Gmina Turawa
- Total
- 1,586.82 km (612.67 sq mi)
- Density
- 77.8204/km (201.554/sq mi)
- Urban
- 21,553
- Rural
- 101,934
- Car plates
- OPO
- Website
- http://www.powiatopolski.pl
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- powiat
- Country
- Poland
- Located in
- Opole Voivodeship
- Contains
- Gmina Tułowice
- Capital
- Opole
- Population
- 120821
- Area
- 1586.82
- Shares border with
- Namysłów County
- Official website
- www.powiatopolski.pl
- Image
- Castle in Narok (Norok), Silesia.jpg
- Licence plate code
- OPO
Show 5 more facts
- Commons category
- Powiat opolski, Opole Voivodeship
- topic's main category
- Category:Opole County
- P6482
- Opole County
- native label
- Powiat opolski
- postal code
- 45-082
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Encyclopedic overview
Opole County (Polish: powiat opolski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Opole Voivodeship, south-western Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat is the city of Opole, although the city is not part of the county (it constitutes a separate city county). The county contains four towns: Ozimek, 20 km (12 mi) east of Opole, Niemodlin, 24 km (15 mi) west of Opole, Prószków, 11 km (7 mi) south-west of Opole, and Tułowice, 22 kilometres (14 mi) south-west of Opole.
The county covers an area of 1,586.82 square kilometres (612.7 sq mi). As of 2019 its total population is 123,487, out of which the population of Ozimek is 8,657, that of Niemodlin is 6,315, that of Tułowice is 4,011, that of Prószków is 2,570, and the rural population is 101,934.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Opole County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.