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The following is an alphabetical list of all 380 county-level entities in Poland.. A county or powiat (pronounced povyat, /pɔv.jät/) is the second level of Polish administrative division, between the voivodeship (provinces) and the gmina (municipalities or communes; plural "gminy").
Major cities normally have the status of both gmina and powiat. Poland currently has 16 voivodeships, 380 powiats (including 66 cities with powiat status), and 2,478 gminas. [1] The current system was introduced pursuant to a series of acts passed by the Polish parliament in 1998, and came into effect on 1 January 1999.
A powiat (; pl. 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 " is most often translated into English as "county" or "district" (sometimes "poviat").
Map of Poland. This is a list of cities and towns in Poland, consisting of four sections: the full list of all 107 cities in Poland by size, followed by a description of the principal metropolitan areas of the country, the table of the most populated cities and towns in Poland, and finally, the full alphabetical list of all 107 Polish cities and 861 towns combined.
In the meanwhile, Poland abolished counties completely and introduced a new, two-tier administrative division, with 49 smaller voivodeships and gminas. [7] Ostensibly the reforms of 1973 and 1975 were made in order to guide Poland through an accelerated period of growth, however, the real intent seemed to be the fear of what the government in ...
Map of Polish Regions Archived 2005-04-16 at the Wayback Machine; Administrative division of Poland (from Commission on Standardization of Geographical Names Outside Poland website, in English) Archived 2006-09-25 at the Wayback Machine; Official map by Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography Archived 2007-03-11 at archive.today
Koło County (Polish: powiat kolski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Greater Poland Voivodeship, west-central Poland.It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms in 1998.
Pisz County (Polish: powiat piski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, northern Poland.It came into being on 1 January 1999 as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998.