Wejherowo County

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Wejherowo County (Polish: Powiat wejherowski) is the most populated countryside county in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.

Area: 1,280 km²
Population: 184,000
Capital: Wejherowo
Cities: Wejherowo, Reda, Rumia
Rural communes: Choczewo, Gniewino, Linia, Luzino, Leczyce, Szemud, Wejherowo (rural commune)

Wejherowo County partly belongs to the Tricity agglomeration of over 1,000,000 people.

Many local Poles fell victim to German extermination policies during World War II. The county was the location of a mass murder site in Piaśnica, with some 66,000 murders counted.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] External links

Wejherowo County website – (Polish language)

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