Wejherowo County (Polish: Powiat wejherowski) is the most populated countryside county in the Pomeranian Voivodship, Poland. The Pomeranian Voivodship (in Polish województwo pomorskie) is an administrative region or voivodship in northern Poland within the historic region of Eastern Pomerania. ...

Area: 1,280 km²
Population: 170,000
Capital: Wejherowo
Towns: Wejherowo, Reda, Rumia
Communities: Choczewo, Gniewino, Linia, Luzino, Leczyce, Szemud, Wejherowo Wejherowo (see also Cities alternative names), is a city in Eastern Pomerania, northern Poland, with 47,300 inhabitants (1995). ... Wejherowo (see also Cities alternative names), is a city in Eastern Pomerania, northern Poland, with 47,300 inhabitants (1995). ... Reda is a town on the Reda river in Kashubia or Eastern Pomerania region, north-western Poland with some 17,000 inhabitants. ... Rumia (pronounce: [rumȋa], Cassubian: Rëmiô, German Rahmel) is a town, located in Eastern Pomerania region, north-western Poland, with some 43,000 inhabitants. ... Wejherowo (see also Cities alternative names), is a city in Eastern Pomerania, northern Poland, with 47,300 inhabitants (1995). ...

Wejherowo County partly belongs to the Tricity agglomeration of over 1 million people. For other tricities see Tri-Cities Tricity (also called the Treble City, in Polish Trójmiasto) is the metropolitan area consisting of the three Polish cities Gdańsk (German:Danzig), Gdynia and Sopot. ...

Many local Poles fell victim to German extermination policies during World War II. The county is the location of a mass murder site in Piasnica with some 66,000 murders counted. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... Piasnica is a river and a village in Pomerania in Northern Poland. ...

History

inhabitants: 61,620 (1910) protestants: 17,294 catholics: 43,782

In 1900 41.0 % of population declared Kashub language and 11.2% declared Polish language. Kashubians (also Kassubians, or Cassubians, in Kashubian: Kaszëbi) are a Slavic ethnic group living in modern-day northwestern Poland. ...

In the 1907 elections for the three counties Kartuzy County, Wejherowo County and Puck County 65.5% of votes were for Polish parties; in 1912 64.5%. 1907 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Kartuzy County, whose capital is Kartuzy, is a county in the Pomeranian Voivodship of Poland. ... The county with capital in Puck, Poland. ...

External link

• Website (http://www.powiat.wejherowo.pl/)