Kolbuszowa County (Polish: powiat kolbuszowski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, south-eastern 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 Kolbuszowa, which lies 30 kilometres (19 mi) north-west of the regional capital Rzeszów.
The county covers an area of 773.93 square kilometres (298.8 sq mi). As of 2006 its total population is 61,399, out of which the population of Kolbuszowa is 9,172 and the rural population is 52,227.
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