Rypin County


Rypin County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-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 only town is Rypin, which lies east of Toruń and east of Bydgoszcz.
The county covers an area of. As of 2006 its total population is 44,306, out of which the population of Rypin is 16,565 and the rural population is 27,741.

Neighbouring counties

Rypin County is bordered by Brodnica County to the north, Żuromin County to the east, Sierpc County to the south-east, Lipno County to the south-west and Golub-Dobrzyń County to the west.

Administrative division

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