Leżajsk County

Leżajsk County (Template:Langx) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, south-eastern 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 Leżajsk, which lies Template:Convert north-east of the regional capital Rzeszów. The only other town in the county is Nowa Sarzyna, lying Template:Convert north-west of Leżajsk.

The county covers an area of Template:Convert. As of 2019 its total population is 69,479, of which the population of Leżajsk is 13,853, that of Nowa Sarzyna is 5,834, and the rural population is 49,792.<ref name="population">Template:Cite web</ref>

Neighbouring counties

Leżajsk County is bordered by Biłgoraj County to the north-east, Przeworsk County and Łańcut County to the south, Rzeszów County to the south-west, and Nisko County to the north-west.

Administrative division

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

Gmina	Type	Area (km2)	Population (2019)	Seat
Gmina Nowa Sarzyna	urban-rural	144.6	21,585	Nowa Sarzyna
Gmina Leżajsk	rural	198.5	20,300	Leżajsk *
Leżajsk	urban	20.3	13,853
Gmina Grodzisko Dolne	rural	78.4	8,008	Grodzisko Dolne
Gmina Kuryłówka	rural	141.3	5,733	Kuryłówka
* seat not part of the gmina

Notable residents

• Moe Drabowsky, American major league baseball pitcherTemplate:Citation needed

References

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