Key facts
- Country
- Poland
- Voivodeship
- Pomeranian
- Seat
- Wejherowo
- Gminas
- Total 10 (incl. 3 urban) Reda Rumia Wejherowo Gmina Choczewo Gmina Gniewino Gmina Łęczyce Gmina Linia Gmina Luzino Gmina Szemud Gmina Wejherowo
- Total
- 1,279.84 km (494.15 sq mi)
- Density
- 169.368/km (438.661/sq mi)
- Urban
- 124,823
- Rural
- 91,941
- Car plates
- GWE
- Website
- https://www.powiatwejherowski.pl/
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Wejherowo County (Kashubian: Wejrowsczi kréz, Polish: powiat wejherowski) 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 Wejherowo, which lies 36 kilometres (22 mi) north-west of the regional capital Gdańsk. The county also contains the towns of Rumia, lying 11 km (7 mi) east of Wejherowo, and Reda, 7 km (4 mi) east of Wejherowo. Rumia, Reda and Wejherowo are contiguous, and are referred to as the Kashubian Tricity, an allusion to the larger Tricity area centred on Gdańsk.
The county covers an area of 1,279.84 square kilometres (494.1 sq mi). As of 2019, its total population is 216,764, out of which the population of Wejherowo is 49,652, that of Rumia is 49,160, that of Reda is 26,011, and the rural population is 91,941.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wejherowo County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.