Powiat Sejneński

Powiat Sejneński
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Podlaskie
County town :	Sejny
Area :	856.07 km 2
Residents :	20,718 (June 30, 2015)
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	BSE
Circle structure
Municipalities :	1
Rural communities :	4th
Starostei (as of 2008)
Starost :	Ryszard Grzybowski
Address:	ul. 1 Maja 1 ; 16-500 Sejny
Website :	www.powiat.sejny.pl

The powiat Sejneński is a powiat (district) in the Polish Podlaskie Voivodeship with the district town of Sejny . It covers an area of 856.07 km² and is the poorest in Poland with a population of around 21,000.

Communities

The powiat comprises five municipalities , one of which is an urban municipality and four rural municipalities. The municipality of Puńsk has been officially bilingual since 2006, as the Lithuanian population in this municipality makes up over 20%.

(Population as of June 30, 2015)

Borough

Sejny - 5598

Rural communities

Giby - 2873
Krasnopol - 3844
Puńsk / Punskas - 4278
Sejny - 4125

Footnotes

↑ population. Size and Structure by Territorial Division. As of June 30, 2015. Główny Urząd Statystyczny (GUS) (ZIP folder with XLS files; 7.82 MiB), accessed on May 28, 2016 .

[1] population. Size and Structure by Territorial Division. As of June 30, 2015. Główny Urząd Statystyczny (GUS) (ZIP folder with XLS files; 7.82 MiB), accessed on May 28, 2016 .