Chełmno County


Chełmno County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-central Poland. It came into being on 1 January 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998. Its administrative seat and only town is Chełmno, which lies north of Toruń and north-east of Bydgoszcz.
The county covers an area of. As of 2006 its total population is 51,425, out of which the population of Chełmno is 20,388 and the rural population is 31,037.
The county includes the protected area called Chełmno Landscape Park, which stretches along the right bank of the Vistula river.

Neighbouring counties

Chełmno County is bordered by Świecie County to the north, Grudziądz County and Wąbrzeźno County to the east, Toruń County to the south, and Bydgoszcz County to the south-west.

Administrative division

The county is subdivided into seven gminas. These are listed in the following table, in descending order of population.