Gmina Józefów is an urban-rural
gmina (administrative district) in
Biłgoraj County
Biłgoraj County ( pl, powiat biłgorajski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lublin Voivodeship, eastern Poland. It was established on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms pass ...
,
Lublin Voivodeship
The Lublin Voivodeship, also known as the Lublin Province ( Polish: ''województwo lubelskie'' ), is a voivodeship (province) of Poland, located in southeastern part of the country. It was created on January 1, 1999, out of the former Lublin, C ...
, in eastern
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...
. Its seat is the town of
Józefów
Józefów () is a town in east-central Poland, located in Masovian Voivodeship, in Otwock County. It lies about southeast of Warsaw city centre and is a part of that city's metropolitan area. Located on a picturesque confluence of Vistula and ...
, which lies approximately east of
Biłgoraj
Biłgoraj ( yi, בילגאריי, ''Bilgoray'', ua, Білґорай) is a town in south-eastern Poland with 25,838 inhabitants as of December 2021. Since 1999 it has been situated in Lublin Voivodeship; it was previously located in Zamość V ...
and south of the regional capital
Lublin.
The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2006 its total population is 7,266 (out of which the population of Józefów amounts to 2,450, and the population of the rural part of the gmina is 4,816).
The gmina contains parts of the
protected areas called
Krasnobród Landscape Park
Krasnobród Landscape Park (''Krasnobrodzki Park Krajobrazowy'') is a protected area ( Landscape Park) in eastern Poland, established in 1988 below the town of Krasnobród and covering an area of . It is one of four landscape parks in the Roztocz ...
and
Puszcza Solska Landscape Park
Puszcza Solska Landscape Park, also known as Solska Forest Landscape Park (''Park Krajobrazowy Puszczy Solskiej''), is a Polish Landscape Park protected area in southeastern Poland.
The nature park protects an area of . It was established in 19 ...
.
Villages
Apart from the town of Józefów, Gmina Józefów contains the villages and settlements of
Borowina,
Brzeziny
Brzeziny (; yi, ברעזין, ''Brezin'') is a town in Poland, in Łódź Voivodeship, about 20 km east of Łódź. It is the capital of Brzeziny County and has a population of 12,326 as of December 2021. It once was a thriving Jewish sh ...
,
Czarny Las-Kolonia,
Długi Kąt,
Florianka,
Górecko Kościelne,
Górecko Stare,
Hamernia
Hamernia is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Józefów, within Biłgoraj County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately east of Józefów, east of Biłgoraj, and south-east of the regional capital Lublin ...
,
Majdan Kasztelański,
Majdan Nepryski,
Samsonówka,
Siedliska,
Stanisławów,
Szopowe and
Tarnowola.
Neighbouring gminas
Gmina Józefów is bordered by the gminas of
Aleksandrów,
Krasnobród
Krasnobród (; uk, Краснобруд, Krasnobrud) is a small town in Lublin Voivodeship, Poland. It is located near the Roztocze National Park and Krasnobród Landscape Park. The Wieprz River flows through the town. Points of interest includ ...
,
Łukowa,
Susiec,
Tereszpol and
Zwierzyniec
Zwierzyniec (; uk, Звежинець, Zvezhynetsʹ) is a town on the Wieprz river in the Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland. It has 3,324 inhabitants (2004).
Zwierzyniec is the northernmost town of the Roztocze National Park. The par ...
.
References
Polish official population figures 2006
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Jozefow
Biłgoraj County