Key facts
- Country
- Poland
- Voivodeship
- Opole
- Seat
- Prudnik
- Gminas
- Total 4 Gmina Biała Gmina Głogówek Gmina Lubrza Gmina Prudnik
- Total
- 571.16 km (220.53 sq mi)
- Density
- 96.864/km (250.88/sq mi)
- Urban
- 29,059
- Rural
- 26,266
- Car plates
- OPR
- Website
- http://www.powiatprudnicki.pl/
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- powiat
- Country
- Poland
- Located in
- Opole Voivodeship
- Contains
- Gmina Lubrza
- Capital
- Prudnik
- Population
- 51642
- Area
- 571.16
- Shares border with
- Głubczyce County
- Official website
- www.powiatprudnicki.pl
- Image
- Prudnik z drona (cropped 1).jpg
- Licence plate code
- OPR
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- topic's main category
- Category:Prudnik County
- Commons category
- Powiat prudnicki
- postal code
- 48-200
- P6482
- Prudnik County
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Encyclopedic overview
Prudnik County (Polish: powiat prudnicki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Opole Voivodeship, south-western Poland, on the Czech border. 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 Prudnik, which lies 46 kilometres (29 mi) south-west of the regional capital Opole. The county also contains the towns of Głogówek, lying 21 km (13 mi) east of Prudnik, and Biała, 11 km (7 mi) north-east of Prudnik.
The county covers an area of 571.16 square kilometres (220.5 sq mi). As of 2019 its total population is 55,325, out of which the population of Prudnik is 21,041, that of Głogówek is 5,592, that of Biała is 2,426, and the rural population is 26,266.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Prudnik County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.