Elbląg County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (
) in
Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, northern
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...
. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the
Polish local government reforms
The administrative division of Poland since 1999 has been based on three levels of subdivision. The territory of Poland is divided into ''voivodeships'' (provinces); these are further divided into ''powiats'' (counties or districts), and these i ...
passed in 1998. Its administrative seat is the city of
Elbląg, although the city is not part of the county (it constitutes a separate city county). The county contains three towns:
Pasłęk, east of Elbląg,
Tolkmicko, north of Elbląg, and
Młynary, north-east of Elbląg.
The county covers an area of . In 2019, its total population was 57,395, of which the population of Pasłęk was 12,160, that of Tolkmicko was 2,689, that of Młynary was 1,772, and the rural population was 40,774.
Neighbouring counties
Apart from the city of
Elbląg, Elbląg County is also bordered by
Braniewo County to the north-east,
Lidzbark County to the east,
Ostróda County
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Ostróda County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, northern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed ...
to the south-east,
Sztum County to the south-west,
Malbork County and
Nowy Dwór Gdański County to the west and the
Vistula Lagoon
The Vistula Lagoon is a brackish water lagoon on the Baltic Sea roughly 56 miles (90 km) long, 6 to 15 miles (10 to 19 km) wide, and up to 17 feet (5 m) deep, separated from the Gdańsk Bay by the Vistula Spit.
Geography
The lag ...
to the north-west.
Administrative division
The county is subdivided into nine
gmina
The gmina (Polish: , plural ''gminy'' ) is the basic unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a municipality. , there were 2,479 gminy throughout the country, encompassing over 43,000 villages. 940 gminy include cities and tow ...
s (three urban-rural and six rural). These are listed in the following table, in descending order of population.
References
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Land counties of Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship