City with powiat rights

A city with powiat rights is in Poland a designation denoting 66 of the 107 cities which exercise also the powers and duties of a county, thus being an independent city. They have roughly the same status as former county boroughs in the United Kingdom.
Sometimes, such a city will also be referred to in Polish as city county ; this term however is not official. The contemporary term city with powiat rights should not be used interchangeably with the interwar city county.
Such cities are distinct from and independent of the 314 regular powiats.