Nowy Targ County
   HOME

TheInfoList



Click Here for Items Related To - Nowy Targ County
OR:
Nowy Targ County on:   [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Amazon]

Nowy Targ County ( pl, powiat nowotarski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (
powiat A ''powiat'' (pronounced ; Polish plural: ''powiaty'') is the second-level unit of local government and administration in Poland, equivalent to a county, district or prefecture ( LAU-1, formerly NUTS-4) in other countries. The term "''powiat ...
) in
Lesser Poland Voivodeship Lesser Poland Voivodeship or Lesser Poland Province (in pl, województwo małopolskie ), also known as Małopolska, is a voivodeship (province), in southern Poland. It has an area of , and a population of 3,404,863 (2019). It was created on 1 ...
, southern
Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...
, on the Slovak 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 Nowy Targ, which lies south of the regional capital
Kraków Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula, Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland un ...
. The county also contains the towns of Rabka-Zdrój, lying north of Nowy Targ, and Szczawnica, east of Nowy Targ. The county covers an area of . As of 2006 its total population is 181,878, out of which the population of Nowy Targ is 33,493, that of Rabka-Zdrój is 13,031, that of Szczawnica is 7,334, and the rural population is 128,020.


Neighbouring counties

Nowy Targ County is bordered by
Sucha County __NOTOC__ Sucha County ( pl, powiat suski) is a ''mogus'' of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, southern Poland, on the Slovak border. Its administrative seat and largest town is Sucha Beskidzka ...
to the north-west, Myślenice County to the north, Limanowa County to the north-east,
Nowy Sącz County __NOTOC__ Nowy Sącz County ( pl, powiat nowosądecki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government ( powiat) in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, southern Poland, on the Slovak border. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result ...
to the east and
Tatra County __NOTOC__ Tatra County ( pl, powiat tatrzański) is a unit of territorial administration and local government ( powiat) in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, southern Poland, on the Slovak border. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of th ...
to the south. It also borders
Slovakia Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the ...
to the south.


Administrative division

The county is subdivided into 14
gmina The gmina (Polish: , plural ''gminy'' , from German ''Gemeinde'' meaning ''commune'') is the principal unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a municipality. , there were 2,477 gminas throughout the country, encompassing over 4 ...
s (two urban, one urban-rural and 11 rural). These are listed in the following table, in descending order of population.


References


Polish official population figures 2006


External links

* {{Lesser Poland Voivodeship Nowy Targ