Powiat Kętrzyński

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Powiat Kętrzyński
Coat of arms of the Powiat Kętrzyński Location of the Powiat Kętrzyński
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Warmia-Masuria
County town : Kętrzyn
Area : 1,212.97 km 2
Residents : 62,536 (June 30, 2019)
Population density : 52 inhabitants / km 2
Telephone code : (+48) 89
License plate : NKE
Circle structure
Municipalities : 1
Urban and rural communities : 2
Rural communities : 3
Starostei (as of 2012)
Starost : Tadeusz Mordasiewicz
Address: pl. Grunwaldzki 1
11-400 Kętrzyn
Website : www.starostwo.ketrzyn.pl

The powiat Kętrzyński is a powiat (district) in the northern part of the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship with the district town of Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) . The powiat has around 64,000 inhabitants on an area of ​​1,213 km².

geography

The largest lakes in the powiat are Legińskie, Dejnowa, Widryńskie, Iławki, Silec and Mój, each with over 50 hectares of water.

Geographical location

The Powiat is clockwise from the powiats Węgorzewo in the Northeast, Giżycko , Mrągowo , Olsztyn and Bartoszyce enclosed and bordered to the north to Russia belonging to the Kaliningrad Oblast . It is slightly larger than the former Rastenburg district - it also includes the northeastern part of the former Rößel district and part of the former Gerdauen district .

geology

Brown earth makes up more than 60 percent of the area of ​​the powiat, especially in the north and center of the powiat it is strongly represented. Black earth is the second most common type of soil and can be found throughout the powiat. In 1973, 15 percent of the powiat was covered by forest, with forests mainly to be found in the east and southeast.

climate

The powiat is one of the coldest areas in Poland. The annual mean temperature is 6.5 ° C, in July it is 16.9 ° C in February -4.4 ° C. The lowest measured temperature was −32.5 ° C.

Communities

The municipalities of the Powiat Kętrzyński

The powiat Kętrzyński comprises six municipalities , one of which is an urban municipality and two urban-and-rural municipalities , the main towns of which have municipal rights, and three rural municipalities:

Population as of June 30, 2019

Borough

Urban-and-rural parishes

Rural communities

Population development

The population development of the Powiat Kętrzyński:

1995: 72.266
2000: 68.279
2005: 66.472
2010: 64,552
2019: 62,536

Web links

Commons : Powiat Kętrzyński  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. population. Size and Structure by Territorial Division. As of June 30, 2019. Główny Urząd Statystyczny (GUS) (PDF files; 0.99 MiB), accessed December 24, 2019 .
  2. Kętrzyn - from the history of the town and its surroundings in Kętrzyn , Olsztyn 1978, p. 313
  3. population. Size and Structure by Territorial Division. As of June 30, 2019. Główny Urząd Statystyczny (GUS) (PDF files; 0.99 MiB), accessed December 24, 2019 .
  4. population. Size and Structure by Territorial Division. As of December 31, 2010. Główny Urząd Statystyczny (GUS), accessed July 16, 2011.