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Pisz County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (
) in
Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, northern
Poland
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. It came into being on 1 January 1999 as a result of the
Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is
Pisz, which lies east of the regional capital
Olsztyn
Olsztyn ( , ) is a city on the Łyna River in northern Poland. It is the capital of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, and is a city with powiat rights, city with county rights. The population of the city was estimated at 169,793 residents
Olsz ...
. The county contains three other towns:
Orzysz, north-east of Pisz,
Ruciane-Nida, west of Pisz, and
Biała Piska, east of Pisz.
The county covers an area of . As of 2006 its total population is 57,553, out of which the population of Pisz is 19,332, that of Orzysz is 5,804, that of Ruciane-Nida is 4,894, that of Biała Piska is 4,006, and the rural population is 23,517.
Neighbouring counties
Pisz County is bordered by
Giżycko County to the north,
Ełk County and
Grajewo County to the east,
Kolno County and
Ostrołęka County to the south,
Szczytno County to the west, and
Mrągowo County to the north-west.
Administrative division
The county is subdivided into four
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 (all urban-rural, centred on the four towns). These are listed in the following table, in descending order of population.
References
Polish official population figures 2006
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