__NOTOC__ Wejherowo County (, ) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (

powiat A ''powiat'' (; ) is the second-level unit of local government and administration in Poland, equivalent to a county, district or prefecture (Local administrative unit, LAU-1 ormerly Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics, NUTS-4 ...

) in

Pomeranian Voivodeship Pomeranian Voivodeship ( ; ) is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship, or province, in northwestern Poland. The provincial capital is Gdańsk. The voivodeship was established on January 1, 1999, out of the former voivodeships of Gdańsk Voivo ...

, northern

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, on the

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coast. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the

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passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is

Wejherowo Wejherowo (; formerly ) is a city in Gdańsk Pomerania, northern Poland, with 48,735 inhabitants (2021). It has been the capital of Wejherowo County in Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999; previously, it was a city in Gdańsk Voivodeship (1975–199 ...

, which lies north-west of the regional capital

Gdańsk Gdańsk is a city on the Baltic Sea, Baltic coast of northern Poland, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. With a population of 486,492, Data for territorial unit 2261000. it is Poland's sixth-largest city and principal seaport. Gdań ...

. The county also contains the towns of

Rumia Rumia (; ; ) is a town in northern Poland, in the Wejherowo County in Pomeranian Voivodeship, with some 49,000 inhabitants. It is a part of the Kashubian Tricity (Rumia, Reda, Wejherowo) and a suburb part of the metropolitan area of the Tricity ...

, lying east of Wejherowo, and

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, east of Wejherowo. Rumia, Reda and Wejherowo are contiguous, and are referred to as the

Kashubian Tricity Little Kashubian Tricity (; ) is a name used for an urban area in northern Poland comprising the three towns of Rumia, Reda and Wejherowo, located in Wejherowo County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, and within the ethnocultural region of Kashubia Ka ...

, an allusion to the larger Tricity area centred on Gdańsk. The county covers an area of . 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.
''Wejherowo County on a map of the counties of Pomeranian Voivodeship'' Wejherowo County is bordered by

Puck County __NOTOC__ Puck County (, ) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland, on the Baltic coast. The ''powiat'' of this name existed in the history of Poland, since the times of th ...

to the north-east, the city of

Gdynia Gdynia is a city in northern Poland and a seaport on the Baltic Sea coast. With an estimated population of 257,000, it is the List of cities in Poland, 12th-largest city in Poland and the second-largest in the Pomeranian Voivodeship after Gdańsk ...

to the east,

Kartuzy County __NOTOC__ Kartuzy County (; ) is a county in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, with administrative seat and largest town being Kartuzy. It came into being on 1 January 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. The ...

to the south and

Lębork County __NOTOC__ Lębork County (, ) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland, on the Baltic Sea, Baltic coast. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local ...

to the west. It also borders the

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to the north.

Location

According to data from January 1, 2012, the county's area was 1228.25 km² The neighboring counties are:

and city with county rights

Administrative division

The county is subdivided into 10

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 and seven rural). These are listed in the following table, in descending order of population.

References

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