List of Polish gminas
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This is a list of all 2,478 gminas of Poland
(sometimes called communes or municipalities
). For more information about what these are and how they are named, see the article on gmina
s. Note that some gminas in different parts of the country have identical names.
The following information is provided for each gmina in the list:
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...
(sometimes called communes or municipalities
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
). For more information about what these are and how they are named, see the article on 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...
s. Note that some gminas in different parts of the country have identical names.
The following information is provided for each gmina in the list:
- type (an urban gmina consists of one city or town, an urban-rural gmina consists of a town and neighbouring rural areas, a rural gmina has no town);
- county (powiatPowiatA powiat is the second-level unit of local government and administration in Poland, equivalent to a county, district or prefecture in other countries. The term powiat is most often translated into English as "county", although other terms are also sometimes used...
) in which the gmina is located (urban gminas denoted city county are towns which have powiat status in their own right); - voivodeshipVoivodeships of PolandThe voivodeship, or province, called in Polish województwo , has been a high-level administrative subdivision of Poland since the 14th century....
(province) in which the gmina is located; - areaAreaArea is a quantity that expresses the extent of a two-dimensional surface or shape in the plane. Area can be understood as the amount of material with a given thickness that would be necessary to fashion a model of the shape, or the amount of paint necessary to cover the surface with a single coat...
of the gmina, in square kilometres; - populationPopulationA population is all the organisms that both belong to the same group or species and live in the same geographical area. The area that is used to define a sexual population is such that inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals...
as of 2006.