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Sochaczew County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (
) in
Masovian Voivodeship
Masovian Voivodeship or Mazowieckie Province (, ) and any variation thereof, is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship (province) in east-central Poland, containing Poland's capital Warsaw.
Masovian Voivodeship has an area of and had a 2019 po ...
, east-central
Poland
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. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the
Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and only town is
Sochaczew, which lies west of
Warsaw
Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at ...
.
The county covers an area of . As of 2019, the county's total population is 85,024, out of which the population of Sochaczew is 36,327, and the rural population is 48,697.
Neighbouring counties
Sochaczew County is bordered by
Płońsk County to the north,
Nowy Dwór County to the north-east,
Warsaw West County and
Grodzisk Mazowiecki County to the east,
Żyrardów County to the south-east,
Skierniewice County to the south,
Łowicz County to the south-west,
Gostynin County to the west, and
Płock County to the north-west.
Administrative division
The county is subdivided into eight
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 (one urban and seven rural). These are listed in the following table, in descending order of population.
References
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