Gmina Stary Zamość is a rural gmina

Gmina

The gmina is the principal unit of administrative division of Poland at its lowest uniform level. It is often translated as "commune" or "municipality." As of 2010 there were 2,479 gminas throughout the country...

 (administrative district) in Zamość County

Zamosc County

Zamość County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Lublin Voivodeship, 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 is the city of Zamość, although the city is not part...

, Lublin Voivodeship

Lublin Voivodeship

- Administrative division :Lublin Voivodeship is divided into 24 counties : 4 city counties and 20 land counties. These are further divided into 213 gminas....

, in eastern Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

. Its seat is the village of Stary Zamość

Stary Zamosc

Stary Zamość is a village in Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Stary Zamość. It lies approximately north-west of Zamość and south-east of the regional capital Lublin....

, which lies approximately 11 kilometres (7 mi) north-west of Zamość

Zamosc

Zamość ukr. Замостя is a town in southeastern Poland with 66,633 inhabitants , situated in the south-western part of Lublin Voivodeship , about from Lublin, from Warsaw and from the border with Ukraine...

 and 65 km (40 mi) south-east of the regional capital Lublin

Lublin

Lublin is the ninth largest city in Poland. It is the capital of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 350,392 . Lublin is also the largest Polish city east of the Vistula river...

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The gmina covers an area of 97.19 square kilometres (37.5 sq mi), and as of 2006 its total population is 5,456.

The gmina contains part of the protected area

Protected area

Protected areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognised natural, ecological and/or cultural values. There are several kinds of protected areas, which vary by level of protection depending on the enabling laws of each country or the regulations of the international...

 called Skierbieszów Landscape Park

Skierbieszów Landscape Park

Skierbieszów Landscape Park is a protected area in eastern Poland, established in 1995....

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Villages

Gmina Stary Zamość contains the villages and settlements of Bezednia

Bezednia

Bezednia is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Stary Zamość, within Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland....

, Borowina

Borowina, Zamosc County

Borowina is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Stary Zamość, within Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland.-References:...

, Chomęciska Duże

Chomeciska Duze

Chomęciska Duże is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Stary Zamość, within Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Stary Zamość, north-west of Zamość, and south-east of the regional capital Lublin.-References:...

, Chomęciska Duże-Kolonia

Chomeciska Duze-Kolonia

Chomęciska Duże-Kolonia is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Stary Zamość, within Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland.-References:...

, Chomęciska Małe, Doły, Koniec

Koniec, Lublin Voivodeship

Koniec is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Stary Zamość, within Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately east of Stary Zamość, north of Zamość, and south-east of the regional capital Lublin.The village has a population of 860.-References:...

, Krasne

Krasne, Zamosc County

Krasne is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Stary Zamość, within Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately north of Stary Zamość, north of Zamość, and south-east of the regional capital Lublin....

, Majdan Sitaniecki

Majdan Sitaniecki

Majdan Sitaniecki is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Stary Zamość, within Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately north-east of Stary Zamość, north of Zamość, and south-east of the regional capital Lublin.-References:...

, Nowa Wieś

Nowa Wies, Gmina Stary Zamosc

Nowa Wieś is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Stary Zamość, within Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland.-References:...

, Podkrasne

Podkrasne

Podkrasne is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Stary Zamość, within Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland....

, Podstary Zamość

Podstary Zamosc

Podstary Zamość is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Stary Zamość, within Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland....

, Stary Zamość

Stary Zamosc

Stary Zamość is a village in Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Stary Zamość. It lies approximately north-west of Zamość and south-east of the regional capital Lublin....

, Udrycze

Udrycze

Udrycze is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Stary Zamość, within Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately east of Stary Zamość, north of Zamość, and south-east of the regional capital Lublin.-References:...

, Udrycze-Kolonia

Udrycze-Kolonia

Udrycze-Kolonia is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Stary Zamość, within Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland.-References:...

 and Wisłowiec.

Neighbouring gminas

Gmina Stary Zamość is bordered by the gminas of Izbica

Gmina Izbica

Gmina Izbica is a rural gmina in Krasnystaw County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. Its seat is the village of Izbica, which lies approximately south of Krasnystaw and south-east of the regional capital Lublin....

, Nielisz

Gmina Nielisz

Gmina Nielisz is a rural gmina in Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. Its seat is the village of Nielisz, which lies approximately north-west of Zamość and south-east of the regional capital Lublin....

, Skierbieszów

Gmina Skierbieszów

Gmina Skierbieszów is a rural gmina in Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. Its seat is the village of Skierbieszów, which lies approximately north-east of Zamość and south-east of the regional capital Lublin....

 and Zamość

Gmina Zamosc

Gmina Zamość is a rural gmina in Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. Its seat is the town of Zamość, although the town is not part of the territory of the gmina....

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