Tuchola County
Tuchola County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-central 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 only town is Tuchola, which lies north of Bydgoszcz and north-west of Toruń.
The county covers an area of. As of 2012 its total population is 53.200, out of which the population of Tuchola is 20.185 and the rural population is 33,295.
The county contains most of the protected area called Tuchola Landscape Park.Neighbouring counties
Tuchola County is bordered by Starogard County to the north-east, Świecie County to the east, Bydgoszcz County to the south, Sępólno County to the south-west and Chojnice County to the west.The county is subdivided into six gminas. These are listed in the following table, in descending order of population.
Gmina | Type | Area
| Population
| Seat |
Gmina Tuchola | urban-rural | 239.4 | 26.385 | Tuchola |
Gmina Cekcyn | rural | 253.3 | 6,437 | Cekcyn |
Gmina Lubiewo | rural | 162.8 | 5,717 | Lubiewo |
Gmina Śliwice | rural | 174.8 | 5,430 | Śliwice |
Gmina Gostycyn | rural | 136.2 | 5,189 | Gostycyn |
Gmina Kęsowo | rural | 108.8 | 4,381 | Kęsowo |