Leżajsk County () 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 largest town is Leżajsk, which lies north-east of the regional capital Rzeszów. The only other town in the county is Nowa Sarzyna, lying north-west of Leżajsk.
The county covers an area of . As of 2019 its total population is 69,479, of which the population of Leżajsk is 13,853, that of Nowa Sarzyna is 5,834, and the rural population is 49,792.
Neighbouring counties Leżajsk County is bordered by Biłgoraj County to the north-east, Przeworsk County and Łańcut County to the south, Rzeszów County to the south-west, and Nisko County to the north-west.
Administrative division The county is subdivided into five gminas (one urban, one urban-rural and three rural). These are listed in the following table, in descending order of population.
Gmina Type Area(km2) Population(2019) SeatGmina Nowa Sarzynaurban-rural144.621,585Nowa SarzynaGmina Leżajskrural198.520,300Leżajsk *Leżajskurban20.313,853 Gmina Grodzisko Dolnerural78.48,008Grodzisko DolneGmina Kuryłówkarural141.35,733Kuryłówka* seat not part of the gmina
Notable residents Moe Drabowsky, American major league baseball pitcher Stanisław Tołpa (1901–1996), Polish professor, botanist, and theologian. Witold Szczypiński (1955–), vice-president of the Management Board of Grupa Azoty S.A. (1967–), Polish bishop. Gaspar Tochman (1797–1880), Polish-American lawyer and soldier. Rabbi Elimelech Weisblum (1717–1787), one of the Hasidic movement's founding Rebbes. Count Jan Potocki (1761–1815), captain, engineer of the Crown Army, ethnologist, Egyptologist, linguist, and author. Tadeusz Hollender (1910–1943), Polish poet, translator, humorist and member of the Polish resistance movement in World War II, murdered by the Gestapo Boguslaw Szwacz (1912–2009), artist and teacher Tadeusz Lubicz-Niezabitowski (1896–1952), colonel who served in the Polish Armed Forces and took part in the Battle of Grudziądz Józef Zych (1938–), lawyer, politician, and former Marshal of the Sejm.
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