Sochaczew County (Polish: powiat sochaczewski) 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 Sochaczew, which lies 52 kilometres (32 mi) west of Warsaw.
The county covers an area of 731.02 square kilometres (282.2 sq mi). As of 2006 its total population is 83,318, out of which the population of Sochaczew is 37,925 and the rural population is 45,393.
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