Bytów County
Bytów County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern 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 Bytów, which lies west of the regional capital Gdańsk. The only other town in the county is Miastko, lying west of Bytów.
The county covers an area of. As of 2006 its total population is 75,313, out of which the population of Bytów is 16,715, that of Miastko is 10,987, and the rural population is 47,611.
Bytów County on a map of the counties of Pomeranian Voivodeship
Bytów County is bordered by Słupsk County to the north, Lębork County to the north-east, Kartuzy County and Kościerzyna County to the east, Chojnice County and Człuchów County to the south, and Szczecinek County and Koszalin County to the west.Local Government
District head
- Leszek Pałasz
- Andrzej Hrycyna p.o.
- Michał Świątek-Brzeziński
- Roman Zaborowski
- Jacek Żmuda-Trzebiatowski
- Leszek Waszkiewicz
Vice district head
Chairman of the county council
- Mieczysław Bachórz
- Jerzy Jobczyk
- Andrzej Hrycyna
Administrative division
The county is subdivided into 10 gminas. These are listed in the following table, in descending order of population.