Kielce County

Kielce County is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Swietokrzyskie Voivodeship, south-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat is the city of Kielce, although the city is not part of the county (it constitutes a separate city county). The county contains four towns: Checiny, south-west of Kielce, Chmielnik, south of Kielce, Daleszyce, south-east of Kielce, and Bodzentyn, east of Kielce.