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County Konin

General information

Powiat koniński – widok z lotu ptakaKonin County embraces territory situated in the middle part of Poland, at the eastern borders of Wielkopolska Voivodeship. It takes up the area of 1.578 km2 which makes it the fourth biggest in the Voivodship and marksit as one of the largest counties in Poland as a whole.

Territory of the county belongs to a strip of lowland within the limits of the Greater Poland Lowlands. In the central part of the county spreads the wide Warta Valley. To the north and to the south from it rise the diverse uplands, additionally enhanced by 23 glacial lakes in the north:

  • In the north-west part of county: Wilczyńskie, Budzisławskie, Kownackie and partially Wójcińskie, Suszewskie;
  • In Bieniszew forest complex: Głodowskie, Mielno, Wściekłe, Skąpe;
  • A string of lakes to the north of Konin: Wąsosko-Mikorzyńskie, Ślesińskie, Licheńskie, Czarne, Mielno, partially Gopło and Skulskie, Skulska Wieś and Czartowo;
  • In the middle-east part of the county: Lubstowskie, Mąkolno, Mostki, Szczekawa and Zakrzewek.
There predominate temperate climate with the mild winters and low yearly level of atmospheric precipitation. Territory of the county is poor in useful natural resources. The most profitable resource is a brown coal, which deposits are located to the north from Konin City.

Forests occupy about 25 thousand ha, it means 16,37% of the whole area. On the territory of county there are 63 natural monuments. Among the natural-scenery landscape there are protected areas: Warta river Valley, forest complex to the south-east from Konin City, Bieniszew Primeval Forest as well as Gopło Lake and Skulskie Lakes surroundings.
Konin County includes 14 communes:
  • 5 rural-urban communes: Golina, Kleczew, Rychwał, Sompolno, Ślesin;
  • 9 rural communes: Grodziec, Kazimierz Biskupi, Kramsk, Krzymów, Rzgów, Skulsk, Stare Miasto, Wierzbinek, Wilczyn.

They are divided into 295 village councils. The local community inhabits 488 rural and 5 urban places. Konin County population amounts (according to data from the end of 2019) 130 053 residents. Ślesin commune has the most number of inhabitants (14 067), while the smallest in this regard is Grodziec county (5 160). The biggest town according to its residents number is Golina (4 478). Population of the rural territories makes 86,41% of the whole county population.

At the end of 2017, within the whole number of population the persons of before-productive age made 19,49% (25.283 thousand), and productive age - 63,62% (82.519 thousand). In 3rd quarter of 2018 there was registered 3,935 thousand of unemployed, where  31,84% were the persons between 25-34 years old. An unemployment rate was of 9,0%. Within the whole number of unemployed 11,72% were the persons with high education, 31,97% - graduates of general secondary schools, 30,80% graduates of basic vocational schools and 25,51% - graduates of primary and secondary schools.

Local labor market in regard of demand (number of job places) forms its two sectors: agriculture and fuel-energy complex along with their economic entities.

Shares of particular branches in the economic structures of communes are riding on the similar level with that county-wide. There is noticeable domination of trade and repair service sector. In other sectors, there appear greater differences, but deviations from the average rate are of some percents at maximum (for example: in Ślesin commune it concerns hotel and catering industry, transport and warehousing, and in Golina and Sompolno communes - building industry).

Konin county, like other units of Konin sub-region (territory is almost the same of former Konin Voivodeship), despite of negative impact of fuel-energy complex, is marked by relatively large area of so-called high-value natural territories and areas including elements of ecological structures.

Such features of Konin county as: geographic location, clear natural environment, route of lakes along with forests complexes, historic objects and protected areas make this region to be attractive for the development of tourist service.

Exceptional virtues of Konin county make the basis for establishing of such forms of tourism as:

  • water tourism (canoeing, sailing, rowing, windsurfing, water skis),
  • hike and bicycle tourism,
  • fishing.

Central location of Konin county offers favorable conditions in regard of the communication availability. This is a very important feature for tourist sector. Easy access is conductive to forming of the tourism structures within this territory and brings a lot of advantages. Beside the routes and means of transport, the communication base of Konin county also includes marked out hike, bicycle, kayak trails.

Tourist accommodation base of Konin county mainly consists of hotels, conference and holiday centers, summer-resort houses, chalets, camping sites, wayside inns, private lodgings and agri-tourist farms.

On the territory of Konin county, all the recreation objects and hotels concentrate their attention on the development of sport-recreation equipment base. In lower degree, there expanded the base of paratourist services and those entertainment concerned.

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See also:
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