Przysucha County (Polish: powiat przysuski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Masovian Voivodeship, east-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 and only town is Przysucha, which lies 98 kilometres (61 mi) south of Warsaw.
The county covers an area of 800.68 square kilometres (309.1 sq mi). As of 2006 its total population is 43,822, out of which the population of Przysucha is 6,245 and the rural population is 37,577.
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