Nowa Sól County

Nowa Sól County (Template:Langx) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lubusz Voivodeship, western 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 Nowa Sól, which lies Template:Convert south-east of Zielona Góra and Template:Convert south of Gorzów Wielkopolski. The county contains three other towns: Kożuchów, lying Template:Convert south-west of Nowa Sól, Bytom Odrzański, lying Template:Convert south-east of Nowa Sól, and Nowe Miasteczko, Template:Convert south of Nowa Sól.

The county covers an area of Template:Convert. As of 2019 its total population is 86,384. The most populated towns are Nowa Sól with 38,763 inhabitants and Kożuchów with 9,432 inhabitants.

From 1999 until 2002, Nowa Sól County also included the areas which now comprise Wschowa County (the towns and gminas of Wschowa, Sława and Szlichtyngowa).

Neighbouring counties

Nowa Sól County is bordered by Wolsztyn County to the north-east, Wschowa County and Głogów County to the east, Żagań County to the south-west, and Zielona Góra County to the north-west.

Administrative division

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

Gmina	Type	Area (km2)	Population (2019)	Seat
Nowa Sól	urban	21.6	38,763
Gmina Kożuchów	urban-rural	178.8	15,962	Kożuchów
Gmina Otyń	rural	91.6	6,986	Otyń
Gmina Nowa Sól	rural	176.2	6,959	Nowa Sól*
Gmina Bytom Odrzański	urban-rural	52.4	5,424	Bytom Odrzański
Gmina Nowe Miasteczko	urban-rural	77.2	5,377	Nowe Miasteczko
Gmina Siedlisko	rural	92.2	3,593	Siedlisko
Gmina Kolsko	rural	80.6	3,320	Kolsko
* seat not part of the gmina