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- source: Family History Library Catalog
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Toruń County is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-central Poland. It was created on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat is the city of Toruń, although the city is not part of the county (it constitutes a separate city county). The only town in Toruń County is Chełmża, which lies nineteen kilometers (twelve miles) north of Toruń.
The county covers an area of . As of 2006 its total population is 89,505, out of which the population of Chełmża is 15,273 and the rural population is 74,232.
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