Cieszyn County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland, on the Czech and Slovak border. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998.
The county's administrative seat and largest town is Cieszyn, which lies on the Czech border south-west of the regional capital Katowice. The county also contains four other towns: Ustroà Â, east of Cieszyn, Skoczów, north-east of Cieszyn, Wisà Âa, south-east of Cieszyn, and Strumieà Â, north-east of Cieszyn.
The county covers an area of . As of 2019 its total population is 178,145, out of which the population of Cieszyn is 34,513, that of Ustroà  is 16,073, that of Skoczów is 14,385, that of Wisà Âa is 11,132, that of Strumieà  is 3,718, and the rural population is 98,324.
The county was first created after Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire in 1850 as Politischer Bezirk Teschen, one of the seven counties in Austrian Silesia. After World War I, fall of Austria-Hungary, PolishâÂÂCzechoslovak War and the division of Cieszyn Silesia in 1920, the territory of the county was divided between Czechoslovakia and Poland. The bigger part of the Austrian county found in Czechoslovakia was superseded by ÃÂeský TÃÂà ¡ÃÂn District and smaller part found in Poland, was enlarged by four municipalities of the Austrian Bezirk Freistadt and more than a dozen from Bezirk Bielitz and was admitted to Silesian Voivodeship. Following the Munich Agreement, in October 1938 the Trans-Olza region was annexed by Poland and on 27 September ÃÂeský TÃÂà ¡ÃÂn was joined with Cieszyn and 53 municipalities were also adjoined to Cieszyn County. It was then annexed by Nazi Germany at the beginning of World War II with the county known as Landkreis Teschen. After the war pre-1938 borders were restored. In 1975 the county-level division of Poland was replaced with 49 voivodeships, with the territory of Cieszyn County being encompassed by Bielsko-Biaà Âa Voivodeship. It was recreated on January 1, 1999, within Silesian Voivodeship, pursuant to the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998.
Cieszyn County is bordered by the city of JastrzÃÂbie-Zdrój and Pszczyna County to the north, and the city of Bielsko-Biaà Âa, Bielsko County and à »ywiec County to the east. It also borders the Czech Republic to the west and Slovakia to the south.
The county is subdivided into 12 gminas (three urban, two urban-rural and seven rural). These are listed in the following table, in descending order of population.