Oświęcim County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, southern Poland. It came into being o…Oświęcim County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, southern 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 largest town is Oświęcim, which lies 51 kilometres west of the regional capital Kraków. The county contains four other towns: Kęty, 17 km south of Oświęcim, Brzeszcze, 9 km south-west of Oświęcim, Chełmek, 8 km north of Oświęcim, and Zator, 16 km east of Oświęcim.
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