Nidzica County

{{Infobox settlement

| name = Nidzica County

| native_name = Powiat nidzicki

| settlement_type = County

| total_type = total

| image_flag = POL powiat nidzicki flag.svg

| image_shield = POL powiat nidzicki COA.svg

| image_map = Nidzica County Warmia Masuria.png

| map_caption = Location within the voivodeship

| image_map1 = nidzicki.png

| map_caption1 = Division into gminas

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = {{POL}}

| subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship

| subdivision_name1 = Warmian-Masurian

| area_total_km2 = 960.7

| population_total = 33955| population_as_of = 2006

| population_density_km2 = auto

| population_urban = 14761

| population_blank1_title = Rural

| population_blank1 = 19194

| coor_pinpoint = Nidzica

| coordinates = {{coord|53|21|30|N|20|25|30|E|region:PL|display=inline,title}}

| seat = Nidzica

| parts_type = Gminas

| parts = Total 4

| p1 = Gmina Janowiec Kościelny

| p2 = Gmina Janowo

| p3 = Gmina Kozłowo

| p4 = Gmina Nidzica

| blank_name = Car plates

| blank_info = NNI

| website = http://www.powiatnidzicki.pl }}

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Nidzica County ({{langx|pl|powiat nidzicki}}) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, northern Poland. It came into being on 1 January 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and only town is Nidzica, which lies {{convert|48|km|mi|0}} south of the regional capital Olsztyn.

The county covers an area of {{convert|960.7|km2|sqmi|1}}. As of 2006, its total population is 33,955, out of which the population of Nidzica is 14,761 and the rural population is 19,194.

Population

The county's population has stagnated and remained the same for the past four decades, never surpassing the 35,300 mark.

Historical population

In 1825, Nidzica County (Kreis Neidenburg) had 29,617 inhabitants, including by mother tongue: 27,467 (~93%) Polish and 2,149 (~7%) German.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gsj1FBg0gvUC&pg=RA1-PA78|title=Die ländliche verfassung in den einzelnen provinzen der Preussischen Monarchie|last=von Haxthausen|first=August|publisher=Gebrüder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung|year=1839|location=Königsberg|pages=78–81|language=de}}{{Cite journal|last=Belzyt|first=Leszek|date=1996|title=Zur Frage des nationalen Bewußtseins der Masuren im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (auf der Basis statistischer Angaben)|url=https://www.zfo-online.de/index.php/zfo/article/viewFile/134/134|journal=Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung|language=de|volume=Bd. 45, Nr. 1|pages=35–71|via=zfo-online|access-date=December 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191003002444/https://www.zfo-online.de/index.php/zfo/article/viewFile/134/134|archive-date=October 3, 2019|url-status=dead}}{{Cite journal|last=Jasiński|first=Grzegorz|date=2009|title=Statystyki językowe powiatów mazurskich z pierwszej połowy XIX wieku (do 1862 roku)|url=http://bazhum.muzhp.pl/media//files/Komunikaty_Mazursko_Warminskie/Komunikaty_Mazursko_Warminskie-r2009-t1/Komunikaty_Mazursko_Warminskie-r2009-t1-s97-130/Komunikaty_Mazursko_Warminskie-r2009-t1-s97-130.pdf|journal=Komunikaty Mazursko-Warmińskie|language=pl|volume=1|pages=97–130|via=BazHum}}

Neighbouring counties

Nidzica County is bordered by Olsztyn County to the north, Szczytno County to the east, Przasnysz County to the south-east, Mława County to the south, Działdowo County to the south-west and Ostróda County to the north-west.

Administrative division

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

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| style="text-align:center;"|Gmina

| style="text-align:center;"|Type

| style="text-align:center;"|Area
(km²)

| style="text-align:center;"|Population
(2006)

| style="text-align:center;"|Seat

Gmina Nidzica

|urban-rural

| style="text-align:right;"|378.9

| style="text-align:right;"|21,485

|Nidzica