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Piaseczno County

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Country
  
Poland

Car plates
  
WPI

Voivodeship
  
Masovian Voivodeship

Seat
  
Piaseczno

Area
  
621 km²

Capital
  
Piaseczno

Piaseczno County

Gminas
  
Total 6 Gmina Góra Kalwaria Gmina Konstancin-Jeziorna Gmina Lesznowola Gmina Piaseczno Gmina Prażmów Gmina Tarczyn

Points of interest
  
Czersk Castle, Park Zdrojowy im hrabie, Rezerwat przyrody Wyspy Ś, Małpi Gaj, Villa la fleur

Destinations
  
Konstancin‑Jeziorna, Góra Kalwaria, Piaseczno, Czersk - Masovian Voivodeship, Chojnów Landscape Park

Piaseczno County (Polish: powiat piaseczyński) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Piaseczno, which lies 17 kilometres (11 mi) south of Warsaw. The county contains three other towns: Konstancin-Jeziorna, 8 km (5 mi) east of Piaseczno, Góra Kalwaria, 18 km (11 mi) south-east of Piaseczno, and Tarczyn, 16 km (10 mi) south-west of Piaseczno.

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Map of Piaseczno County, Poland

The county covers an area of 621.04 square kilometres (239.8 sq mi). As of 2006 its total population is 145,276, out of which the population of Piaseczno is 37,508, that of Konstancin-Jeziorna is 16,579, that of Góra Kalwaria is 11,130, that of Tarczyn is 3,886, and the rural population is 76,173.

Neighbouring counties

Piaseczno County is bordered by the city of Warsaw to the north, Otwock County to the east, Grójec County to the south, Grodzisk Mazowiecki County to the west and Pruszków County to the north-west.

Administrative division

The county is subdivided into six gminas (four urban-rural and two rural). These are listed in the following table, in descending order of population.

References

Piaseczno County Wikipedia